2:HM Fort Roughs Tower – the Maiden Voyage
Bombers – Northfleet – Maunsell – Tilbury – Barrier – Storm – Late arrival
What’s the Point of a Compass?
The magnetic compass has developed, not as quickly as one might think, over the last seven or eight centuries. Mariners have been navigating the seas out of sight of land for much longer than this: directions had to be based on the bearings of the Sun and stars although local use could be made of …
1892 Extract from Cowper on Deben
1892 – The Coasts of Essex and Suffolk by Frank Cowper – Extract Harwich area
Page 96 FROM THE COLNE TO HARWICH. …Trinity House. This serves as a land-mark, but will not be of any use to us, as its only advantage, beyond being a mark to tell ships out at sea what point of land they are off, is to clear the Longsand Head fifteen miles away out at …
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Beacon Hill – Harwich Fort
Felixstowe sea temperature
From Channel Coastal Observatory graph showing temperature range by month for 2018-2020 data. Month Degrees C January 6.7 February 6.1 March 7.6 April 9.7 May 12.6 June 16.2 July 18.4 August 19.9 September 17.6 October 14.3 November 9.9 December 7.7 Some data here on temperature rise. There are better figures for Sizewell somewhere. About 0.75 …
Edward Killwick Calver R.N.
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Orwell Estuary by W.G. Arnott
Thames Estuary defence features
Harwich Haven
More Thames Estuary Charts and Pilots
See also Thames River Charts, Deben Entrance Charts and Pilots and Harwich Haven Charts and Pilots 1688/9 Halley’s Survey presented to the Royal Society but whereabouts not known. Results incorporated in his Channel Chart. See Halley 1903 East Coast Rivers by Meesum 1923 East Coast Rivers – on file 1933 File:Admiralty Chart No 1610 North …
1752 John Mount Thames Chart
Here at David Rumsey Collection.
1841 A Walk on Gunfleet Sands
From: 1851 A Season at Harwich by W.H.Lindsey – there is also discussion of the channel passing north of Landguard. See page 206. Note: it is about 5nM from Walton to the Sands. Miss Archer, having asked the probable extent of the Gunfleet Sands, the kind host furnished his attentive guests with a description of …