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Haisborough Sands
Haisborough Sands (or Haisboro Sands or Haisbro Sands) is a sandbank off the coast of Norfolk, England at Happisburgh.SC1408 Harwich and Rotterdam to Cromer & Terschelling (Admiralty Small Craft Chart) Coastal planning chart of the Harwich and Rotterdam to Cromer and Terschelling Scale: 1:300,000 The shoal is long and wide and lies parallel to the north-east coast of Norfolk. The shoal is marked to the northwest by north by the Haisbro Light Buoy, North cardinal. To the southeast by south is a light buoy South cardinal, and to the west by Mid Haisbro light buoy starboard hand. In 1995 there were three drying patches recorded to the north-northeast and east-southeast of the Mid Haisbro light buoy. Except at slack water their positions are indicated by tidal eddies particularly on the northwest, and in slight or moderate seas the swell breaks on the shallower parts of the banks. There are several foul patches on the southern part of the shoal. Over the years this shoal has c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and Earth science, geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank (geography), bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation. Shoals are also known as sandbanks, sandbars, or gravelbars. Two or more shoals that are either separated by shared crest and trough, troughs or interconnected by past or present sedimentary and hydrographic processes are referred to as a shoal complex.Neuendorf, K.K.E., J.P. Mehl Jr., and J.A. Jackson, eds. (2005) ''Glossary of Geology'' (5th ed.). Alexandria, Virginia, American Geological Institute. 779 pp. The term ''shoal'' is also used in a number of ways that can be either similar to, or quite different from, how it is used in geologic, geomorphic, and oceanographic literature. Sometimes, the term refers to either any relatively shallow place in a stream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackerel
Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae. They are found in both temperate and tropical seas, mostly living along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment. Mackerel species typically have deeply forked tails and vertical "tiger-like" stripes on their backs with an Iridescence, iridescent green-blue quality. Many are restricted in their distribution ranges and live in separate populations or Fish stocks, fish stocks based on geography. Some stocks Fish migration, migrate in large Shoaling and schooling, schools along the coast to suitable spawning grounds, where they spawn in fairly shallow waters. After spawning they return the way they came in smaller schools to suitable feeding grounds, often near an area of upwelling. From there they may move offshore into deeper waters and spend the winter in relative inactivity. Other stocks migrate across oceans. Smaller mackerel are forage fish for la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cromer Lifeboat Louisa Heartwell ON 495
RNLB ''Louisa Heartwell'' (ON 495) was the sixth lifeboat to be stationed at Cromer on the coast of the English county of Norfolk She was launched from the beach station and was on station from 1902 to 1932. During her period on station at Cromer the ''Louisa Heartwell'' had only two coxswains during her 29-year career. They were Matthew James ''Buttons'' Harrison until his retirement in 1909, and then Henry George Blogg.''Henry Blogg, the Greatest of the Lifeboatmen'', Jolly, C., Pub: Poppyland Publishing, new edition 2002, Louisa Heartwell 'Retires' to The Historic Lifeboat Collection In 1996, ''Louisa Heartwell'' arrived in Chichester by road and was used as a houseboat, until she was acquired in 2019 by Premier Marinas, who in April 2020 donated her to the RNLI for restoration and display. As of 25 March 2021, she is now on display at the Historic Lifeboat Collection in Chatham, Kent. New lifeboat house With the arrival of the new Liverpool-class Pulling and Sailing li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Optima (ship)
''Placilla'' was a four-masted barque which was built for F. Laeisz, Hamburg, Germany in 1892. She was sold in 1901 and renamed ''Optima'' in 1903. In 1905 she was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands. Description ''Placilla'' was built by Joh. C. Tecklenborg in Geestemünde, Germany. She was long overall, with a beam of and a depth of . She had four masts and was rigged as a barque, with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. Her air draught was . Her sail area was .'' Placilla'' was a sister ship to ''Pisagua'', which was launched seven months later than she was. History ''Placilla'' entered service with F Laeisz, Hamburg in 1892. She was used on the route between Germany and Chile. In 1892, ''Placilla'' made the voyage from Lizard Point to Valparaiso, Chile in 58 days. This was a record time. It was equalled by Potosi (1900), ''Pitlochry'' (1902), ''Preußen'' (1903), ''Eldora'' (1904) and ''Preußen'' (1905). She recorded a fastest voyage from Iquique, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiania, Norway
Oslo ( or ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of towns and cities in Norway, most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a Counties of Norway, county and a Municipalities of Norway, municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age, the area was part of Viken (region), Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a kjobstad, ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a diocese of Oslo, bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around the year 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from Kalmar Union, 1397 to 1523 and again from Denmark–Norway, 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of Christian IV of Denmark, King Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Bywell Castle (1869)
''Bywell Castle'' was a passenger and cargo ship that was built in 1869 by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow, County Durham. She was involved in the ''Princess Alice'' Disaster in September 1878 in which more than 600 people died. She disappeared in February 1883 whilst on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Description ''Bywell Castle'' was long, with a beam of and a depth of . She was assessed at , . She was powered by a compound steam engine, which had cylinders of and diameter by stroke. It was rated at 120 horsepower and drove a single screw propeller. History ''Bywell Castle'' was built as yard number 250 by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow, County Durham for Hall Brothers, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. She was launched on 20 November 1869 and completed in January 1870. Her port of registry was London and the United Kingdom Official Number 63546 was allocated, as were the Code Letters JKPW. She had a cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Invincible (1765)
HMS ''Invincible'' was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1765 at Deptford. ''Invincible'' was built during a period of peace to replace ships worn out in the recently concluded Seven Years' War. The ship went on to serve in the American War of Independence. May, 1778 under command of Capt. Anthony Parry. Fought at the battles of Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780), Cape St Vincent in 1780, and under the command of Captain Sir Charles Saxton, 1st Baronet, Charles Saxton, the Battle of the Chesapeake, Battles of the Chesapeake in 1781 and Battle of St. Kitts, St Kitts in 1782. She survived the cull of the Navy during the next period of peace, and was present, under the command of Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer), Thomas Pakenham, at the Glorious First of June in 1794, where she was badly damaged and lost fourteen men, and, under the command of William Cayley (Royal Navy Captain), William Cayley, the Invasion of Trinidad (1797), which re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bideford (1756)
HMS ''Bideford'' was a 20-gun Royal Navy ship launched in 1756. Service history HMS ''Bideford'' was designed by Sir Thomas Slade and built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard with Captain Robert Digby as Commander, with a crew of 160 men. The ship was based on the south English coast. In November 1756 command passed to Francis Samuel Drake. In June 1757 command passed to Captain Samuel Hood (father of the infamous Captain Samuel Hood) and she joined the fleet of Admiral Hawke and began a period of intense action. *30 July 1757 - attacked and captured the French schooner "La Victoire". *30 September 1757 - attacked and captured the French privateer "Romieu" In February 1758 command passed from Hood to Captain Lancelot Skynner. *26 August 1758 - attacked and captured the French privateer "Le Printemps" *4 April 1760 - with HMS Flamborough attacked two superior French ships, each of 32-guns: "La Malicieuse" and "L'Opale", unfortunately at the loss of Skynner's life. Lt Kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is a type of fossil fuel, formed when dead plant matter decays into peat which is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years. Vast deposits of coal originate in former wetlands called coal forests that covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas during the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian (geology), Pennsylvanian) and Permian times. Coal is used primarily as a fuel. While coal has been known and used for thousands of years, its usage was limited until the Industrial Revolution. With the invention of the steam engine, coal consumption increased. In 2020, coal supplied about a quarter of the world's primary energy and over a third of its Electricity generation, electricity. Some iron and steel-maki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mariner's Mirror
''The Mariner's Mirror'' is the quarterly academic journal of the Society for Nautical Research in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1911 and is abstracted and indexed by Scopus. It is published in partnership with Taylor & Francis. The ''Mariner's Mirror'' is ranked by the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) as an INT1 journal (the highest classification), which has internationally recognised scholarly significance with high visibility and influence among researchers in the various research domains in different countries, regularly cited all over the world. List of editors (Source)"Editorial," Centenary Issue, ''Mariner's Mirror'', vol. 97, no. 1 (2011), p.3. * 1911-12 - L.G. Carr Laughton * 1913-22 - R.C. Anderson * 1923-31 - W.G. Perrin * 1931-32 - R.C. Anderson * 1932-39 - David Bonner-Smith * 1939-46 - R.C. Anderson * 1946-54 - Commander Hilary Poland Mead * 1954-61 - George Worcester * 1961-71 - Captain T. Davys Manning * 1971-79 - Professor Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipwrecks
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 ships''. Types Historic wrecks are attractive to 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 much about the battle that occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
