Sailing directions for the river Thames, from London, to the Nore and Sheer… – Google Books
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| THE SWIN AND KING’S CHANNEL Buoy on the Middle, No 3, black3 fathoms starboard. Whitaker Spit buoy, red, with staff and triangular vane3 fathoms larboard. South buoy of the Swin Spitway, blacklarboard. Gunfleet beaconlarboard. Gunfleet buoy, No. 9, black4 fathoms larboard. Middle hook buoy, chequered black and white3 fathoms starboard. Buoy of the heaps, white with a vane3 fathoms starboard. Sunk-light vessel, sloop rigged8 fathoms starboard. Buoy S.E. Spit of West Rocks, black and white, with words, ‘West Rocks’3¼ fathoms larboard. Buoy of the Cork-ledge, white, with words, ‘Cork-ledge’ on it2 fathoms larb Buoy of the Lower-rough, No. 10, red3½ fathoms larboard. Buoy on the South Ship-head, white4 fathoms starboard. Buoy on the North Ship-head, red4 fathoms starboard. Buoy on Baudsey-sand, chequered black and white4 fathoms, starboard. Buoy on the Cutler, black4½ fathoms larboard. Buoy on the west end of the Middle-ground, black4½ fathoms larboard. Buoy on the east end of the Middle-ground, black3¼ fathoms larboard. Buoy on the S. W. end of the Whiting, white3¼ fathoms starboard. Buoy on the Elbow of the Whiting, white3 fathoms starboard. Buoy on the N.E. end of the Whiting, No. 11, white3 fathoms starboard. Buoy of Aldborough Knaps, chequered black and white,with a vaneon either side. | |
| The Swin buoy of the Spitway is black, and in 2½ fathoms water. The marks for it are, a cupola on a building at St. Osyth on with the east side of a Martello Tower bearing north, the Whitaker buoy S.W. by W., and the Wallet buoy of the Spitway N. by W.½W.* The Wallet buoy of the Spitway is red, and lies in 3 fathoms. Brightlingsea-church just open to the right of a 3 ridge-roofed low building bearing N.½W. | Spitway |
| The Gunfleet-buoy is black, (No. 9.) and lies in 4 fathoms: the mark for it is the tower which is on the Naze-land, the easternmost of the three trees, and Waltonhall, a white house standing farther inland, all on with each other, and bearing N.W.½N., Harwich-lights N. by W., Baudsey-church N.N.E.¼E., the Sunk-light S.by E., and the beacon W.S.W. The channel between the Middle and the Heaps to the southward, and the Gunfleet to the northward, is about 2 miles wide, but between the S.W. buoy of the Middle and the Whitaker buoy, the channel is not more than half a mile in breadth. As there are 5 fathoms close to the Middle and Heaps, you should not come nearer to any part of them than into 7-fathoms; between the Middle-ground and the Buxey are 4, 5, 6, and 7 fathoms; and between the former and the Gunfleet are 6 and 8 fathoms. | Gunfleet |