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Crossing the busy shipping lanes of the English Channel in dinghies is fraught with peril and the journey has claimed several lives in recent years, including children.
The English Channel, [a] [1] also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France. It links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is the busiest shipping area in the world. [2]
Channel was the name of a lightvessel station located in the English Channel between 1979 and August 2021, when it was replaced with a light buoy. It was also one of the 22 coastal weather stations whose conditions were reported in the BBC Shipping Forecast .
1848 chart showing the position of the Downs off the coast of Kent. NB: depths are in fathoms. The Downs is a roadstead (an area of sheltered, favourable sea) in the southern North Sea near the English Channel, off the east Kent coast in southern England, between the North and the South Foreland, near the town of Deal.
This is 25% higher than the 29,437 people who arrived in 2023, but 20% lower than the 45,774 arrivals in 2022, which was the highest for a calendar year since data on Channel crossings began in 2018.
Navy personnel from Devon and Cornwall were dispatched to watch Russian vessels sailing near the British coast. The Royal Navy said Devonport-based HMS Somerset's crew was recalled on Christmas ...
Operations over the Channel and against shipping lost importance as the air war intensified over English air bases. [ 167 ] In the British official history, The Defence of the United Kingdom , (1957) Basil Collier called the German operations a failure, sinking only 30,000 GRT of shipping from the near 1,000,000 tons of weekly coastal shipping ...
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.