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Chesil Cove
Chesil Cove is a curved steep bank forming the south-east end of Chesil Beach in Dorset, England. It is thus part of one of three large shingle structures in Britain, extending from West Bay, Dorset, West Bay to the Isle of Portland (Portland Bill), the latter acting more firmly as a great barrier (groyne) which stops tidal action from washing the beach away and leads to the high depositions by wind and tide action forming the grand curved bank of this "cove". The "cove", bill and much of Chesil Beach give shelter from the prevailing winds and waves for much of Weymouth Bay, the town of Weymouth, Dorset, Weymouth and the village of Chiswell. It forms part of the Jurassic Coast. Flooding defences The adjoining village of Chiswell was established predominately as a fishing community. Despite its vulnerability to sea storms and flooding, Chiswell developed into a thriving community. One of the best-documented incidents of flooding occurred in the Great Storm of 1824. The storm saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipwreck
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. It results from the event of ''shipwrecking'', which may be intentional or unintentional. There were approximately three million shipwrecks worldwide as of January 1999, according to Angela Croome, a science writer and author who specialized in the history of underwater archaeology (an estimate rapidly endorsed by UNESCO and other organizations). When a ship's crew has died or abandoned the ship, and the ship has remained adrift but unsunk, they are instead referred to as Ghost ship, ''ghost ships''. Types Historic wrecks are attractive to maritime archaeology, maritime archaeologists because they preserve historical information: for example, studying the wreck of revealed information about seafaring, warfare, and life in the 16th century. Military wrecks, caused by a skirmish at sea, are studied to find details about the historic event; they reveal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaches Of Dorset
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae. Sediments settle in different densities and structures, depending on the local wave action and weather, creating different textures, colors and gradients or layers of material. Though some beaches form on inland freshwater locations such as lakes and rivers, most beaches are in coastal areas where wave or current action deposits and reworks sediments. Erosion and changing of beach geologies happens through natural processes, like wave action and extreme weather events. Where wind conditions are correct, beaches can be backed by coastal dunes which offer protection and regeneration for the beach. However, these natural forces have become more extreme due to climate change, permanently altering beaches at very rap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Dorset Beaches
This is a list of notable beaches in the United Kingdom. England * Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon * Biggar, Cumbria * Blackpool, Lancashire * Blackpool Sands, Dartmouth, Blackpool Sands, Devon * Bournemouth, Dorset * Brean, Somerset * Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire * Brighton, Sussex * Bude, Cornwall * Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset * Castle Cove, Weymouth, Castle Cove, Dorset * Chesil Beach, Dorset * Church Ope Cove, Dorset * Clacton-on-Sea, Essex * Crantock, Cornwall * Dawlish Warren, Devon * Earnse Bay, Cumbria * Exmouth, Devon * Fistral Beach, Cornwall * Goodrington Sands, Devon * Great Yarmouth, Norfolk * Gyllyngvase, Cornwall * Hayle Towans, Cornwall * Holywell Bay, Cornwall * Lowestoft, Suffolk * Lulworth Cove, Dorset * Lyme Regis, Dorset * Maenporth, Cornwall * Margate, Kent * Minehead, Somerset * Morecambe Bay, Lancashire * Mount's Bay, Cornwall * Newquay, Cornwall * Paignton, Devon * Perranporth, Cornwall * Porthcurno, Cornwall * Saunton Sands, Devon * Scarborough, North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Indiaman
West Indiaman was a general name for any merchantman sailing ship making runs from the Old World to the West Indies and the east coast of the Americas. These ships were generally strong ocean-going ships capable of handling storms in the Atlantic Ocean. The term was used to refer to vessels belonging to the Danish (e.g. ), Dutch, English, and French (e.g. ) West India companies. Similarly, at the time (18th and 19th centuries) people also referred to East Indiamen (ships trading with the East Indies), Guineamen (slave ships), or Greenlandmen ( whalers in the North Seas whale fishery). British West Indiamen tended to be London-built and to sail directly from England (generally London) to the West Indies. Guineamen tended to be built (or owned) in Bristol and Liverpool and to sail from Bristol or Liverpool via West Africa in what is now often referred to as the triangular trade in enslaved people. There were London-based Guineamen, (for example ), and Liverpool-based West Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cove House Inn
The Cove House Inn is an 18th-century public house on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is situated within the village of Chiswell, and alongside Chesil Beach on the esplanade. The Cove House Inn remains one of Portland's most popular pubs, and has been reputed to be one of the best inns for panoramic views in the area. The pub has been a Grade II Listed Building since May 1993. History The current building has been recorded as being early 19th-century, although there is also evidence that the building has origins from the late 17th to the early 18th century. Despite its particularly vulnerable position on the beach, the pub was a survivor of the Great Storm of 1824. The pub's position, overlooking Chesil Cove has linked it to various involvements with shipwrecks. The pub was also a focal point for important meetings on the island. Between 1958 and 1965, construction of a sea wall was completed, and this gave the inn and Chiswell village protection from the sea. In past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seine Fishing
Seine fishing (or seine-haul fishing; ) is a method of fishing that employs a surrounding net, called a seine, that hangs vertically in the water with its bottom edge held down by weights and its top edge buoyed by floats. Seine nets can be deployed from the shore as a beach seine, or from a boat. Boats deploying seine nets are known as Fishing vessel#Seiners, seiners. Two main types of seine net are deployed from seiners: ''purse seines'' and ''Danish seines''. A seine differs from a Gillnetting, gillnet, in that a seine encloses fish, where a gillnet directly snares fish. Etymology The word ''seine'' has its origins in the Old English ''segne'', which entered the language via Latin ''sagena'', from the original Greek σαγήνη ''sagēnē'' (a drag-net). History Seines have been used widely in the past, including by Stone Age societies. For example, the Māori people, Māori used large canoes to deploy seine nets which could be over a kilometer long. The nets were woven fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lerret
A lerret is a type of rowing boat designed for use off the Chesil Beach in Dorset. It is of wooden, clinker (boat building), clinker construction and varied in size, depending on the number of oars – the largest would have up to eight. It was primarily used for fishing but, in emergencies, lerrets would be used as lifeboat (rescue), lifeboats. Construction It was an open clinker (boat building), clinker-built rowing boat about 16 feet long with a beam (nautical), beam of about 5–6 feet, when rowed by 2 to 4 pairs of rowers. To facilitate launching and beaching on the steep shingle beach, shingle of Chesil Beach, the stern was sharp with a high sternpost and the bottom of the craft was flat. A particular boat, ''Ena'', which was built in 1905, was made with twelve planks of wych elm and steam bending, steam-bent rock elm on each side. Its keel was made from pitch pine and it had four oars which were secured to the thole pins so that they would not float off while the cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Literary realism, Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian era, Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as ''Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1874), ''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (1886), ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' (1891) and ''Jude the Obscure'' (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgian Poetry, Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Age Of Sail
The Age of Sail is a period in European history that lasted at the latest from the mid-16th (or mid-15th) to the mid-19th centuries, in which the dominance of sailing ships in global trade and warfare culminated, particularly marked by the introduction of naval artillery, and ultimately reached its highest extent at the advent of steam power. Enabled by the advances of the related age of navigation, it is identified as a distinctive element of the early modern period and the Age of Discovery. Periodization Like most periodic eras, defining the age is inexact and serves only as a general description. The term is used differently for warships and merchant vessels. By the 14th century naval artillery was employed in Europe, documented at the Battle of Arnemuiden (1338). The 15th century saw the Iberian naval ventures all the way along the African Atlantic coast and across the Atlantic Ocean, starting the Age of Discovery. For warships, the age of sail runs roughly from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shore Rockling
The shore rockling (''Gaidropsarus mediterraneus'') is a mottled brown, small, elongated fish. This eel-like fish has three barbels on its head, with the second dorsal fin and the anal fin running the length of most of its body. These fins may be viewed moving in a continuous wave motion. The shore rockling is often confused with the five-bearded rockling (''Ciliata mustela'') and the larger three-bearded rockling (''Gaidropsarus vulgaris''), due to their similar colourings, shape, and habitat. As the name suggests, the main visual differences are the five-bearded rockling having five barbels around its mouth, whereas the three-bearded rockling has a significant redness to its brown colouring when compared to the shore rockling. Shore rocklings can also be eaten, as the flesh is also very tender. Shore rocklings live in rocks, feeding on both worms and crustaceans. They are distributed in the eastern Atlantic from the mid-Norwegian coast south to the Straits of Gibraltar and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Angling
Recreational fishermen usually fish either from a boat or from a shoreline or river bank. When fishing from a boat, or fishing vessel, most fishing techniques can be used, from nets to fish traps, but some form of angling is by far the most common. Compared to fishing from the land, fishing from a boat allows more access to different fishing grounds and different species of fish. Inshore Inshore boat fishing is fishing from a boat in easy sight of land and in water less than about 30 metres deep. The boat can be either human-powered watercraft such as a dinghy, row boat, kayak or canoe, or light motorboats such as a runabout, inflatable, fanboat or small cabin cruiser. Inshore boats are typically small enough to be carried atop of a vehicle roof rack or be towed on a boat trailer, and are much more affordable than offshore fishing boats. In recent times, fishing from a kayak has become popular form of inshore boat fishing. Anglers either use an uptide sea rod between 9 and 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
