BLYTH SETS SAIL
Ex-paratrooper and Atlantic rower Chay Blyth sets sail from the Solent in an attempt to circumnavigate the World from East to West. His 59ft. steel-hulled yacht British Steel gets a final check over and there's a reception before Chay leaves on the 40,000 mile voyage against winds and currents that's regarded as the yachtsman's Everest.
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Drone Captures Beached Whale at Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland
The sad remains of a 30 Ton Sperm Whale where washed up near Sandy Bay near Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland. It is very rare to see a Sperm Whale in British waters. Biologist removed the whales jaw bone and teeth and have given it to The Great North Hancock Museum.
The 30-tonne animal died of suffocation after becoming stranded, but experts say it will now be hard to tell if illness or other conditions brought it there, as much of its organs have already decomposed.
Unfortunately this part of the North Sea acts as quite a good trap for them, because they are a deep water species and when they end up in shallow waters their sonar doesn't work properly, they can't navigate and unless they get away very quickly they get stranded.
Places to see in ( Oakham - UK )
Places to see in ( Oakham - UK )
Oakham is the county town of Rutland in the East Midlands of England, 25 miles east of Leicester, 28 miles south-east of Nottingham and 23 miles west of Peterborough. Oakham lies to the west of Rutland Water, one of the largest man-made lakes in Europe. It is in the Vale of Catmose and is built on an incline, varying from 325 ft (99 m) to 400 ft (120 m) above sea level.
Local governance for Oakham is provided for by the single-tier unitary Rutland County Council, of which Oakham is the headquarters. Tourist attractions in Oakham include All Saints' Church and Oakham Castle. Another popular and historic feature is the open-air market held in the town's market square every Wednesday and Saturday (near the ancient octagonal Buttercross with its pyramidal roof and wooden stocks, a Grade I listed building).
The impressive spire of Oakham parish church, built during the 14th century, dominates distant views of the town for several miles in all directions. Restored in 1857–58 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the church is a Grade I listed building. Oakham Castle, in Oakham, Rutland, was constructed between 1180 and 1190 for Walchelin de Ferriers, Lord of the Manor of Oakham. The Castle is known for its collection of massive horseshoes and is also recognised as one of the best examples of domestic Norman architecture in England.
Rutland County Museum is located in Oakham, Rutland, in the old Riding School of the Rutland Fencible Cavalry which was built in 1794-95. The Birmingham to Stansted Airport railway line runs through the town, providing links to Birmingham, Leicester, Peterborough, Cambridge and Stansted Airport. Oakham railway station is positioned approximately halfway between Peterborough railway station and Leicester railway station
Oakham is on the A606 between Melton Mowbray and Stamford. On 10 January 2007, the A606 bypass opened diverting traffic from the town centre. The Oakham Canal connected the town to the Melton Mowbray Navigation, the River Soar and the national waterways system between 1802 and 1847.
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Copyright of the BBC - Do you know your Nuncle Dick or your Tom Tiddler's Field?
What’s in a name? Do you know where to find your Nuncle Dicks or your Tom Tiddler's Field? Here’s half a million reasons why Ordnance Survey (OS) is helping HM Coastguard save lives.
A distress call comes in. HM Coastguard swings in to action, time is of the essence, but the chances that the caller has a grid reference, post code, road name or the official title of a landmark is by no means certain. However the caller might well know the local nickname or vernacular for the location and when that information can be accessed immediately, then vital minutes could be cut off the time to save lives.
We’ve been working in partnership with OS using a technology which has helped Coastguard teams with more than 20,000 call outs last year alone.
Now we can reference nearly 500 thousand coastal place names, which includes more than 6,000 local nicknames and vernaculars of landmarks along the coast of Great Britain; names which would rarely appear on a map or navigation device. The information has been collected over five year and the database, called FINTAN, is continually updated to reflect current nicknames, and any changes.
Deputy Director of Maritime Operations for the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, Chris Thomas, said: ‘We are here to save lives and our biggest priority, like all the emergency services is getting to people as quickly as we can. We are extremely enthusiastic about being the first emergency service to use FINTAN. There is no doubt that having this information at our fingertips cuts down our response times and saves lives. A great deal of hard work has gone into creating this advanced database which delivers so much knowledge. We would like to thank everyone involved for their efforts so far.”
OS Chief Scientist Jeremy Morley added, ‘This is just the start. Our work with the MCA has been a great success. Equipping HM Coastguard with our information is a major step forward and now we’re looking to move inland too. The hard bit has been creating software algorithms and a web application which is up to the task. Now our ambition is to make the service, as part of our public duty, accessible across every part of GB to support all our emergency services.’
FINTAN includes 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer, 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster and OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 as part of the database.
Since 1 January 2017 to 18 December 2017, HM Coastguard has responded to over 22,000 incidents which were graded as Alert, Distress or Uncertain.
Unusual names between Brighton and Portland:
Deadman’s Head (Langstone Harbour)
Brick Island (Langstone Harbour)
Chinese Bridge / Humpback Bridge / Pagoda Bridge / Yellow Dog with No Teeth Bridge (Warsash Coastal Path West Side)
Colonels Rocks / Ring of Five (Bembridge)
Conagar Bridge (Nursling Mill)
Electric Beach (Marchwood)
Tom Tiddler’s Field (Calshot)
Fishmarket Corner (Newhaven Harbour)
Cuckoo Corner (Lancing / Old Shoreham)
Hallelujah Bay (Portland)
Flus Pier (Portland)
Pom Pom (Portland)
Robinson Crusoe Rock (Portland)
Borstal Boy’s Ponds (Portland)
Dicks Point / Nuncle Dicks (Portland)
Garlic Woods (Studland)
Potato Field (Studland)
Boulder Ruckle (Near Durlston Head)
Steps Hollow (Near Swanage)
The Mushroom (Browndown Battery)
Toe End (Caravan Parks near Selsey)
199 Steps or Bastion Steps (Peacehaven Heights)
Maritime history of the United Kingdom | Wikipedia audio article
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Maritime history of the United Kingdom
00:00:47 1 Chronology
00:00:56 1.1 Eighteenth century
00:01:51 1.2 Nineteenth century
00:03:26 1.3 Twentieth century
00:05:24 1.4 Twenty-first century
00:05:44 2 Royal Navy
00:05:53 2.1 Eighteenth-century navy
00:06:46 2.2 Nineteenth-century navy
00:07:57 2.3 Twentieth-century navy
00:12:01 2.4 The Navy Board
00:12:26 2.5 Ministry of Defence
00:12:44 2.6 Notable wars
00:12:53 2.6.1 American Wars
00:13:28 2.6.2 French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars
00:14:06 2.6.3 Maritime events of World War I
00:17:27 2.6.4 Maritime events of World War II
00:22:39 2.6.5 Post War Operations
00:24:30 3 Notable individuals
00:24:39 3.1 Charles Hardy
00:25:11 3.2 Augustus Keppel
00:26:35 3.3 Edward Hawke
00:26:59 3.4 Richard Howe
00:27:37 3.5 Horatio Nelson
00:29:30 3.6 Hyde Parker
00:30:23 3.7 Edward Pellew
00:30:55 3.8 James Saumarez
00:31:41 3.9 William Dampier
00:32:18 3.10 James Cook
00:33:49 3.11 George Vancouver
00:34:23 3.12 Admiral Anson
00:34:49 3.13 Sir John Franklin
00:35:51 3.14 James Clarke Ross
00:36:12 3.15 Robert Scott
00:36:32 3.16 Ernest Shackleton
00:37:10 4 Shipbuilding
00:38:36 5 Famous ships
00:38:45 5.1 iCutty Sark/i
00:39:40 5.2 iEndeavour/i
00:40:45 5.3 iGreat Britain/i
00:41:20 5.4 iGreat Eastern/i
00:42:33 5.5 iTitanic/i
00:43:52 5.6 iQueen Mary/i
00:44:29 5.7 iBritannia/i
00:45:11 5.8 iVictory/i
00:46:07 5.9 iWarrior/i
00:46:50 5.10 iBelfast/i
00:47:43 6 Navigation
00:47:52 6.1 Instruments and guides
00:48:45 6.2 Lighthouses
00:49:27 6.3 Navigation marks
00:50:02 7 Safety and rescue
00:50:12 7.1 Plimsoll line
00:50:49 7.2 Lifeboats
00:51:51 7.3 Maritime and Coastguard Agency
00:52:20 8 Ports and harbours
00:54:26 9 Trade
00:54:34 9.1 Goods
00:57:44 9.2 Passenger liners
00:58:27 9.3 Emigration/deportation
00:59:03 10 Ferries and cruise boats
01:00:07 11 Customs men and smugglers
01:01:22 12 Fishing
01:03:55 13 Energy
01:04:03 13.1 Gas and oil
01:04:59 13.2 Oil spills
01:06:21 13.3 Offshore wind farms
01:06:56 14 Coast
01:08:11 15 Leisure activities
01:08:20 15.1 Resorts
01:09:00 15.2 Rowing, yachting and power boats
01:11:35 15.3 Marinas
01:11:57 16 Marine science
01:12:07 16.1 Hydrographics
01:12:54 16.2 Oceanography
01:14:17 17 Maritime studies
01:14:26 17.1 Colleges
01:15:01 17.2 Admiralty law
01:15:45 18 Law of the sea
01:16:11 18.1 Ship design
01:16:51 19 Maritime museums
01:17:23 19.1 Maritime archaeology
01:18:02 20 Maritime subjects in the Arts
01:18:12 20.1 Art
01:18:44 20.2 Literature
01:20:01 20.3 Music
01:20:16 21 See also
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The Maritime history of the United Kingdom involves events including shipping, ports, navigation, and seamen, as well as marine sciences, exploration, trade, and maritime themes in the arts from the creation of the kingdom of Great Britain as a united, sovereign state, on 1 May 1707 in accordance with the Treaty of Union, signed on 22 July 1706. Until the advent of air transport and the creation of the Channel Tunnel, marine transport was the only way of reaching the British Isles. For this reason, maritime trade and naval power have always had great importance.
Prior to the Acts of Union, 1707, the maritime history of the British Isles was largely dominated by that of England. (See Maritime history of England for more details.)
Time Team Digital - S20 DIG 10 - Branodunum Roman Fort
An overview of all the happenings on last weeks dig at Branodunum Roman Fort and Vicus in Norfolk. With finds and geophysics results galore, you'll have to watch the final program next year to find out exactly what Time Team found on this final dig of Series 20
Aylsham Public Toilets.
Opened on Carnival day 07/07/07 its the new eagerly awaited Aylsham Public Toilets.
Trinity House 2017
Filmed and edited by Paul French, paul@coolhat.co.uk,