The 46 gun fourth rate H.M.S. Kingfisher was built by Phineas Pett III at Woodbridge in 1675. The Petts were rival shipbuilders to Anthony Deane, who had built ships at Harwich in the 1660s, but was by then at Portsmouth. The history …
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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Tide gauge (sometimes a bit on the drag) Highest level was 3.35 (2013?) 1953 the flooding reached up Cliff Road to the bend by the entrance to the Maybush car park. This is about 4.0m AOD (hard to be exact without measuring – lost OS BM on wall) which makes a height of tide of …