Sie German Hydrographic Institute within the year 1964
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The Chart Establishment, with 158,635 nautical charts, achieved the
largest number of copies printed since 1945» Sew correction methods have
sped up the supply of charts considerably. The charts are now corrected by
striking out the obsolete information provided this will not cause any
doubts on the part of the user or obscure the contents of the chart. 'With
the use of stamps for signatures and additional characters the correctional
work has, to a large extent, become mechanized. The new charts issued (18
charts in the year under review) are exclusively those preliminarily out of
use or those obsolete as to contents, cutting, or scale, which were newly
arranged. A total of 841 different charts were printed which consumed
35,000 kg of chart paper.
lor surveying purposes 7,8?2 nm of sounding profiles were run in the
home waters of the North and Baltic Seas. In the coastal area and on the
near-coastal official routes 98 wrecks were investigated for the first
time or re-examined and another 12 positions as well as a sea area of
62 sum swept, l’or surveying and shipping an extensive test of the Hi-Eix
chain in the inner German Bight was carried out. The survey and research
vessel "Gauß" performed 9 research and trial cruises into the North and
Baltic Seas covering a distance of 10,595 nm.
The Sailing Directions Establishment issued the "Handbuch für die M-
schereigebiete des Nordwest-Atlantischen Ozeans" (a handbook of the
fisheries regions in the NW Atlantic Ocean). It contains, besides details
on shipping and supply, a description of the landfall positions, anchorages,
and harbours of importance to fisheries and merchant shipping. Then the
"Yachtfunkdienst" was issued for the first time, a publication for yachts
and other craft not obliged to carry radio installations. The new edition
of the "Handbuch der europäischen Nordküste der Sowjetunion" (handbook of
the European north coast of the Soviet Union) completed the replacement of
European sailing directions originating from pre-war times. Newly edited
were also the following sailing directions: "Nordsee, westlicher Teil"
(North Sea, Western Part); "Westküste Afrikas, II. Teil" (West Coast of
Africa, part II); "Ostküste Nordamerikas, II, Teil" (East Coast of North
America, part II). In the year under review the German Notices to Mariners,
with a weekly edition of 3,500 pieces, contained 5,460 articles, notices,
and notifications. A completely new edition of the list of lights and
Signal Stations appeared in the year under review and 383 blocks with
3,812 individual corrections were added to the German Notices to Mariners,
Contents and number of the supplements to the ring-binders of the German
list of Hadio Signals remained the same but Yol. 1 of the Time Zone Chart
was replaced by a new Chart of the Time Zones and Standard Times,
