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Harbour History. The modern story of Folkestone Harbour goes back some 200 years, with its origins in the fishing industry. Much of its development took place in the 19th and 20th centuries to enable its use as a ferry port. Before this, since at least Roman times, trading ships had been landing on the shore at East Wear Bay in Folkestone ...
The steeply graded railway down to the harbour was built almost immediately, dropping 111 feet for a distance of 1328 yards. Not only did it reach the harbour at right angles but in order to allow trains a level stretch in which to stop, the Railway Pier was built dividing the existing harbour into two, thus creating the Inner and Outer Harbours.
Folkestone has been a trading port since Roman times. Since at least 1100 it has been a haven for fishing boats along The Stade and around the mouth of the Pent Stream. This stream still flows into the inner harbour through the fine red brick sluice house. The harbour slowly grew over the ages and then, in the 19th century, Folkestone became a ...
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The infographic provides a timeline of key events on the morning of December 7, 1941, related to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At 3:42 AM (Hawaiian time) the minesweeper USS Condorsights what may be a submarine periscope near the entrance to Pearl Harbor. At 6:10 AM the first wave of planes, numbering nearly 200, takes off from aircraft carr...
The infographic provides a chart showing a block of red aircraft icons, each representing a single torpedo plane, high-level bomber, dive bomber, or fighterin the Japanese attacking force. According to the chart, a total of 353 planes were involved in the attack. Of those, 29 planes, shaded dark red on the chart, failed to return to their carriers ...
The infographic presents three maps to aid in visualizing the Pearl Harbor attack, including the dispositions of the attackers and their targets.
Deaths
To aid in visualizing the human toll of the Pearl Harbor attack, the infographic presents a chart showing nearly 50 squares, each representing 50 people killed. Of those squares, 48 represent a total of 2,404 American military personnel and civilians who died. Within that set, 23½ gray squares stand for the 1,177 officers and seamen killed aboard the USS Arizona, and 1⅓ dark blue squares represent the 68 civilians killed. The chart juxtaposes those losses with total Japanese losses: 1¼ red sq...
Awards
The infographic concludes with a chart representing the number of U.S. military personnel who were officially recognized for their distinguished conduct during the Pearl Harbor attack: 15 received the Navy Medal of Honor, the service’s highest award for heroism in combat, and 51 received the Navy Cross, the service’s second highest award for heroism. In addition, the infographic notes that the Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal was later given to all military veterans of the attack.
Coastal ports and harbours have always been central to England’s economy. Economic growth and expanding global links from the 1700s rapidly increased the scale of maritime trade and goods-handling. Larger ports able to process the larger volumes thrived, leaving smaller ones serving only local needs or falling out of use.
The massive outer harbour we can see today owes its origin to a recommendation made in 1845 to construct a harbour of refuge capable of handling up to 20 large naval vessels. A start was made in enclosing the bay, beginning with the south western quarter because of its vulnerability to storms.
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A battle off of Portland followed and the Spanish ship ‘San Salvador’ was captured and brought into the harbour. In the middle of the 17th Century, Weymouth was heavily involved in the Civil War between Charles I and Parliament. In 1645, several royalist plotters within the twin towns of Weymouth and Melcombe on conspired to deliver the ...
