General Development of the G.H.I. during 1961 
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The first difficulties with respect to structure and organization being 
overcome, the G.H.I. having been installed into the Government's machinery 
of the Federal German Republic, and final corrections in the staff situation 
been made, the years following 1950 were marked with intensive and systematic 
international detail-work, in short, with consolidation. For this several 
examples can be given. 
In 1945, by the end of the war, 65 sailing directions were valid in the 
sailing direction work, some of them already superannuated. Of these are 
again already available 26 newly revised pilots. Another 2 were provided 
with new supplements and thus brought up to date. In 1961 new editions of 
as many as 4 pilots were published. While in 1946'the notices to mariners 
contained only about 1900 articles, they amounted to 5400 in 1961. At the 
end of the war the list of light- and signal stations consisted of 13 volumes, 
today it could again be brought to 14 volumes, being newly issued each 
year. 
At the end of the war the chart work (apart from general charts and those 
thought for military purposes published during the war by the Oberkommando 
der Kriegsmarine) amounted to 1017 chart numbers; today to 930. It is only 
natural that when "Neue Ausgaben" and "Neue Karten" are published the stress 
is laid on European waters. Yet, the working up of far off-non-territorial 
sea areas in which German ships are operating is steadily making progress. 
This applies mostly to the west coast of South America, sea areas these are, 
which in 1962 will probably be covered by a sufficiently large number of Ger 
man charts and plans of harbours, so .that for the eastern part of the Pacific 
this work may be considered as being concluded. The second concern was to 
start on the condensation of German charts covering the western Pacific. 
Along with this extension of the German chart work goes the substitution 
of copper for transparent foils, which frequently requires a complete revis 
ion of the charts. 
In surveying the sea of altogether 33 areas of the North Sea in which 
periodical control measurements ought to be carried out only 14 could be 
worked or be started on or those not completed last year be brought to an 
end. In the Baltic Sea whire at present they number 20 only 3 were worked up. 
All control measurements of the year under review, save 2, have as compared 
with the desired routine number (in the North Sea every 2-3 years, in the 
Baltic every 3-4 or 10-15 years) run into delay by one or more years. This 
is a draw-back which since many years the German Hydrographic Institute has 
been eager to catch up. As to the search of wrecks in coastal regions and on