Jahresbericht Nr. 20/1965
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Listen der P-T-Nachriehten (lists of P and T notices); Listen der Berich
tigungen deutscher Seekarten (lists of corrections to German charts); der
zeitweiligen Veränderungen zum Leuchtfeuerverzeichnis (lists of temporary-
alterations in the list of lights); Gezeitentafeln und -kalender (tide
tables and calendars); Erdmagnetische Beobachtungen (geomagnetic observations);
Zeitsignalaufnahmen, astronomische Zeit- und Breitenbestimmungen (time signal
reception, astronomical determination of time and latitude); Deutsche Hydro
graphische Zeitschrift (German hydrographic journal); the nautical journal
"Der Seewart"; Meereskundliche Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse (oceanographic
observations and results); Eisberiohte (ice reports); Eisübersichtskarten
(general ice charts); Jahresbericht des DHI (annual report of the G.H.I.);
Nautisches Jahrbuch (nautical almanac); Information der Hydrographischen
Dokumentation (information of the hydrographic documentation).
As to the Services of the G.H.I., the Nautical Warning Service broad
casted 2,765 notices; the Wind Effect and Storm Surge Warning Service
promulgated 41 special warnings besides the regular morning and evening
forecasts; The Time Service made 1,810 star observations during 79 nights;
on different frequencies a total of about 8,000 precision time signals were
emitted; the Ice Service gave 129 pieces of information about the ice
situation; the Documentation of hydrographic publications comprised 5,700
titles of purely hydrographic subjects. The survey vessels covered 1,315 nm
in the North and Baltic Seas for measuring the radioactivity of sea bottom
and water; for about 500 positions the activity was determined partly in
situ, partly in laboratories. The Geomagnetic Observatory Wingst daily in
formed the Central Engineering Office for Telecommunications at Darmstadt
of the geomagnetic disturbances; about 51,000 instruments and devices of the
ship's equipment were tested on land, more than 2,400 compasses adjusted as
well as radar sets and direction finders accepted and tested on board.
The activities of the Nautical Engineering department have especially
been affected by the "Gesetz über die Aufgaben des Bundes auf dem Gebiet
der Seeschiffahrt". While obligatory tests have hitherto, only been prescribed
for instruments covered by the regulations for the ship's equipment and
accident prevention, it will now also be necessary to test gyro compasses,
echo sounders, air signal apparatus, and other devices. There have been
detailed discussions in this year under review as to the extent up to which
use can be made of the possibility offered by the act to confer the execut
ion of such tasks to qualified persons and to the prerequisites to be
established for this purpose. The extension of functions resulting from this
act do not only refer to the test of instruments but also to the nautical-
1) P and T notices = notices referring to a preliminary or temporary
situation.
