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Time and Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, is a maritime and fishing museum in Great Yarmouth and established in 2005. It is situated in a former Victorian herring curing factory known as Tower Curing Works, and is now part of Maritime Heritage East, a partnership of over 30 maritime museums in the East of England.
Yarmouth Water District (YWD) is a water company which serves Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It was established in 1887 as Pumgustuk Water Company ( pumgustuk is Native American for head of tide or falls at mouth of river ). [ 1 ]
A chart datum is the water level surface serving as origin of depths displayed on a nautical chart and for reporting and predicting tide heights. A chart datum is generally derived from some tidal phase, in which case it is also known as a tidal datum. [1] Common chart datums are lowest astronomical tide (LAT) [1] and mean lower low water (MLLW).
The local Native Americans called the First Falls (or Lower Falls) Pumgustuk, which means head of tide. (The town's early firefighters were called Pumgustuk Fire Company. Their eponymous pumper was purchased in 1856 [2] and retired in 1928. [3] The first incarnation of today's Yarmouth Water District was called Pumgustuk Water Company.) [4]
Windmill Beach in South Yarmouth Dennis on the bank of Bass River. Bass River is an estuary and village in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States. [1] [2] The estuary separates the towns of Yarmouth and Dennis at the central, southern sections of the towns.
Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular location. [1] Tide heights at intermediate times (between high and low water) can be approximated by using the rule of twelfths or more accurately calculated by using a published tidal ...
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William Hewett was a Royal Navy officer noted for making the first comprehensive survey of the North Sea and for his work on tides. Chart of the Coasts of Brazil incorporating Hewett's survey work. Hewett went to sea in HMS Indefatigable first in the war with France, from 1805 to 1811, and in China in 1811. He then joined HMS Cornwall as ...