English Channel Handbook

Harbour entrances and coastal approaches on both sides of the Channel fill the English Channel Handbook, the wartime publica...

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Harbour entrances and coastal approaches on both sides of the Channel fill the English Channel Handbook, the wartime publication produced by the Admiralty's Hydrographic Department in 1943. The maps, catalogued across 1943–1944, are small coastal charts, town plans and harbour details. On the English side, Beaulieu River, Cowes, Portsmouth, Lyme Bay and Hastings show estuaries, anchorages and seaside towns, while French harbour plans include places associated with preparations for the Normandy landings. They are practical hydrographic maps of coastlines, rivers, ports and approaches, made for readers who needed to understand them in wartime.

Harbour entrances and coastal approaches on both sides of the Channel fill the English Channel Handbook, the wartime publication produced by the Admiralty's Hydrographic Department in 1943. The maps, catalogued across 1943–1944, are small coastal charts, town plans and harbour details. On the English side, Beaulieu River, Cowes, Portsmouth, Lyme Bay and Hastings show estuaries, anchorages and seaside towns, while French harbour plans include places associated with preparations for the Normandy landings. They are practical hydrographic maps of coastlines, rivers, ports and approaches, made for readers who needed to understand them in wartime.

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