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Pierre Andriel crossed the English Channel aboard the Élise, ex the Scottish p.s. "Margery" in March 1816, one of the earliest seagoing voyages by steam ship. The paddle steamer Defiance , Captain William Wager, was the first steamer to cross the Channel to Holland, arriving there on 9 May 1816.
Greenwich is a lightvessel station in the English Channel, off the coast of East Sussex.It is operated by Trinity House. [1] It is one of the 22 coastal weather stations whose conditions are reported in the BBC Shipping Forecast but was dropped from broadcasts some time during 2019, before being reinstated.
The Downs lie between the Strait of Dover and the Thames Estuary, so both merchant ships awaiting an easterly wind to take them into the English Channel and those going up to London gathered there, often for quite long periods. According to the Deal Maritime Museum and other sources, there are records of as many as 800 sailing ships at anchor ...
[7] [8] In 1854 The Channel Squadron, sometimes known as the Particular Service Squadron, was established. [9] The Channel Squadron only became a permanent formation in 1858. [10] During the 19th century, as the French developed Cherbourg as a base for steam-powered ships, the Royal Navy developed Portland Harbour as a base for the fleet. [11]
With the topic of English Channel crossings high up the news agenda again after a flurry of arrivals, the PA news agency has looked at some of the key questions on the topic.
Though pitted by troughs and rivers, the English Channel was almost mainly land at the height of the last ice age. [6] The predominant geology of both and of the seafloor is chalk. Although somewhat resistant to erosion, erosion of both coasts has created the famous white cliffs of Dover in the UK and the Cap Blanc Nez in France.
Agincourt (1804 ship) CSS Alabama; Alexander (1803 ship Bombay) HMS Alphea (1806) HMS Amethyst (1793) HMS Amethyst (1799) ... Category: Shipwrecks in the English Channel.
The ship was then beached on the Dutch coast, to be broken up. The accident caused the spill of several hundred tones of oil into the English Channel. [27] [28] [29] The passenger ship SS Chusan collided with the freighter Prospector near the Sands in June 1953, severely damaging and nearly sinking her.