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The lock is located on the Oxfordshire bank at Goring-On-Thames, with Streatley, Berkshire on the opposite side of the river. It is just upstream of Goring and Streatley Bridge . The lock was first built in 1787 by the Thames Navigation Commissioners
Penton Hook Lock with City of London arms on the House. The green box is the hydraulic control system Goring Lock demonstrates the common juxtaposition of weir, lock island, lock keeper's house and lock Choice of Yellow and Red warning boards which are placed on lock gates when navigation is hazardous Kayaker at Boulter's Weir
The new ship was a modernized rebuild of Horst Wessel. Coincidentally, her design had been influenced by another shipwreck: whereas the 1933 Gorch Fock was built in response to the Niobe disaster, the plans of SSS Gorch Fock were altered somewhat after the sinking of Pamir in 1957.
Goring-on-Thames (or Goring) is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England. Situated on the county border with Berkshire, it is 6 mi (10 km) south of Wallingford and 8 mi (13 km) north-west of Reading. It had a population of 3,187 in the 2011 census and was estimated to have increased to 3,335 by 2019. [2]
It is located just upstream of Goring and Streatley villages, on the eastern side of the river within the village of Goring. There was a hamlet of Cleeve, after which the lock is named, but it dropped out of use, as always part of Goring. [2] [3] The first lock was built in 1787 by the Thames Navigation Commissioners. The reach above the lock ...
Goring Heath, village and parish, Oxfordshire; Goring-on-Thames, village and parish, Oxfordshire; Goring Lock, a lock and weir on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England; Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex; Goring (electoral division), an electoral division in West Sussex which contains Goring-by-Sea
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The new ship was built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, launched on 23 August 1958, and commissioned on 17 December of that year. Her home port is Kiel . The Gorch Fock is a three-masted barque with a steel hull 81.2 m (266 ft) long (without the bowsprit ) and 12 m (40 ft) wide.