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Both floods cut massive flood channels in the dry bed of the English Channel, somewhat like the Channeled Scablands or the Wabash River in the USA. A further update in 2017 attributed a series of previously described underwater holes in the Channel floor, "100m deep" and in places "several kilometres in diameter", to lake water plunging over a rock ridge causing isolated depressions or plunge ...
On 30 July, the English fleet was off Eddystone Rocks with the Armada upwind to the west. To execute its attack, the English tacked upwind of the Armada, thus gaining the weather gage, a significant advantage. At daybreak on 31 July, the English fleet engaged the Armada off Plymouth near the Eddystone Rocks.
May 11, 2009 · A quantitative seasonal survey of the phytoplankton and small zooplankton has been made from the end of January to the end of August 1939, at a station, L 4, with supplementary observations at a station off Rame Head, both near Plymouth.
For centuries the rocks have been a hazard for the ships in the approaches to the English Channel and the port city of Plymouth. There have been four lighthouses on the Eddystone Rocks . Winstanley (two versions; the second replaced the top of the structure), Rudyard, Smeaton and finally the Douglass Lighthouse, which is the present one.
The following water was used as the basis for the specified water temperatures for Plymouth: English Channel. Airport close to Plymouth. The closest Airports of Plymouth are: RAF St Mawgan (NQY) 61.06km,Exeter International Airport (EXT) 65.36km,Land's End Airport (LEQ) 118.69km
Real-time updates about vessels in the Port of PLYMOUTH GBPLY: expected arrivals, port calls & wind forecast for PLYMOUTH Port, by MarineTraffic.
Live shipping movements from AIS and webcam looking over the River Mersey and Liverpool Bay.
