Sailing Tours: The Yachtsman's Guide to the Cruising Waters of the English Coast, Part 1L.U. Gill, 1892 - Great Britain |
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... land- locked inlets which indent the shores of Great Britain south of the Humber , and so round , by South and West , until the East is reached again by North . It is to pilot the novice , as well as to prompt occasionally the more ...
... land- locked inlets which indent the shores of Great Britain south of the Humber , and so round , by South and West , until the East is reached again by North . It is to pilot the novice , as well as to prompt occasionally the more ...
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... land . From the Ovens Buoy it bears N.E. E. The light is occulting , three seconds in every thirty - three , white , but showing red to the North of bearing W. by N. N. and with a red sector bearing N. by W. over the West Blythe Buoy ...
... land . From the Ovens Buoy it bears N.E. E. The light is occulting , three seconds in every thirty - three , white , but showing red to the North of bearing W. by N. N. and with a red sector bearing N. by W. over the West Blythe Buoy ...
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... land becoming nothing but a sand - bank . The proprietors agreed to give a third of the lands to John Croppenburgh if he would keep the sea out ; so the Dutchman invited other Dutchmen , and they raised for themselves a succession of ...
... land becoming nothing but a sand - bank . The proprietors agreed to give a third of the lands to John Croppenburgh if he would keep the sea out ; so the Dutchman invited other Dutchmen , and they raised for themselves a succession of ...
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... land of Jutland under a warmer sun . And after all it has a charm of its own , this fleckered land of green meadow and wooded upland with the broadening Thames beyond . The still life is all the stiller by contrast with the stirring ...
... land of Jutland under a warmer sun . And after all it has a charm of its own , this fleckered land of green meadow and wooded upland with the broadening Thames beyond . The still life is all the stiller by contrast with the stirring ...
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... Chapel Hol Shuce House 18 LAND Hadleigh Leigh Hall Castle Milton Hall . Cliff SAND Leigh Middle New Southend Old Southend SourenD FLAT Southend Łwghs ( Rzd ) ཀ -- ' } , 4 BRIDGEMARS Althorn ricksca BURNHAM Southminster Coast Guard 12 Buxey.
... Chapel Hol Shuce House 18 LAND Hadleigh Leigh Hall Castle Milton Hall . Cliff SAND Leigh Middle New Southend Old Southend SourenD FLAT Southend Łwghs ( Rzd ) ཀ -- ' } , 4 BRIDGEMARS Althorn ricksca BURNHAM Southminster Coast Guard 12 Buxey.
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abreast ahead Aldborough Alde AMATEURS anchor anchorage ancient ashore bank barges Bawdsey beach Beacon Blackwater boat breeze Brightlingsea Buxey Castle channel Chelmondiston church Clacton Cliff cloth gilt coast Colne colour craft creek Crouch cruise Darcy Ding Dovercourt east eastern entrance Erwarton Essex fair Felixstowe Flats Hadleigh Castle Hall Hanford Water harbour Harwich head hill Horsea Island Illustrated Island keep land Landguard Layer Marney Towers Leigh light London look Lord low water mainsail Maldon Manningtree manor Maplin Maplin Sands mark Marney martello tower Mersea miles narrow Naze nearly night North north-east Orford Haven Orwell passing pier Pinmill Point pretty red and white river River Alde round sailing Sands shingle ship shore Shotley side Southend Spit Spitway stand starboard steamers steer Stour Swin Thames tide Tollesbury Tolleshunt D'Arcy turn vessel village Walton weather wind Wrabness yacht
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