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ix. shipping and navigation.
A kind of nautical description of the Baltic was written as early as 1644 by
Johan Månsson, a captain in the Admiralty, who also published a sort af
maritime chart of that sea. An improved chart was published in 1694 by Captain
Gädda, but it was not till 1737 that the first step was taken towards the
institution of a nautical chart office. At the present time there are excellent
sharts of the coast of Sweden. An account of the Nautical Chart Office will
oe found in the section entitled: Official Cartography p. I, 226.
The Pilotage Board. The Pilotage Board, which is governed by
regulations of the 13 December 1907, consists of a director-general and three
members, one of whom is the head of the chancery, one the head of the
pilot office, and the third superintendent lighthouse engineer and head of
the corresponding office. — The permanent staff of the Board numbered
in 1911 23 persons.
The Pilot Service. The present organization of the Pilot Service dates
from 1881, with a few subsequent alterations introduced especially by the
Royal Ordinance of the 30 September 1904. In this Ordinance it is
enacted that the coasts of Sweden and adjacent waters shall be divided into
6 pilotage districts, namely Övre Norra, the Upper North district,
comprising the coasts of the Norrbotten and Västerbotten läns; Nedre Norra,
the Lower North district, embracing the coasts of the Västernorrland,
Gävleborg, and Uppsala läns, and those of Stockholm län up to the north
boundary of Väddö parish; Mellersta, the Midland District, including the coasts
from the last-named boundary and down to the boundary between the
parishes of Bälinge and Tystberga in Södermanland, Lake Mälaren and Lake
Hjälmaren, and the island of Gottland; Östra, the East district, covering
the coasts from the last-named boundary in Södermanland to the
boundary between the parishes of Kristianopel and Torhamn in Blekinge as
well as the island of Öland and Lake Vättern; Södra, the South district,
comprehending the coasts from the last named frontier in Blekinge besides
the Malmöhus and Kristianstad läns; Västra, the West district,
embodying the coasts of the Halland, Göteborg och Bohus läns and Lake
Vänern. Each district is superintended by a pilot captain (lotskapten). The
pilot captains are, as a rule, selected eithpr out of the corps of naval officers
or from among the pilot lieutenants (lotslöjtnant). The pilot lieutenants are
the pilot captains’ right-hand men and deputies; one of them is assigned
to each division, and in addition one to the island of Gottland. The
lieutenants too are as a rule chosen out of the corps of naval officers or from
the Naval Reserves.
The pilot personnel consists of överlotsar, senior pilots, at certain
important stations, lotsförmän, head pilots, at other stations, and the
requisite number of pilots rated as mästerlotsar, master pilots, lotsar,
ordinary pilots, and lotslårlingar, articled pilots. The lighthouse personal is
composed of fyrmästare, lighthouse keepers, f yrvak tare, lighthouse men,
and fyrbiträden, assistant lighthouse men. The staff at the life-saving
stations consists of uppsyningsman, overseers, båtstyrare, steersmen, and
roddare, rowers.
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