Harbours of Refuge Commission

Proposed breakwaters and carefully surveyed bays fill these maps and plans, the evidence behind a Victorian inquiry into she...

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Proposed breakwaters and carefully surveyed bays fill these maps and plans, the evidence behind a Victorian inquiry into sheltering ships on dangerous coasts. They come from the 1859 report of the Harbours of Refuge Commission, which completed an inquiry recommended by a House of Commons committee the year before, printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Tynemouth, St Ives, Padstow, Wick and harbours on the Isle of Man are among the places considered, while engineering sections compare breakwaters at Alderney, Plymouth, Dover and Portland and another plate examines a wave screen. Many of the structures shown are proposals, not works already built.

Proposed breakwaters and carefully surveyed bays fill these maps and plans, the evidence behind a Victorian inquiry into sheltering ships on dangerous coasts. They come from the 1859 report of the Harbours of Refuge Commission, which completed an inquiry recommended by a House of Commons committee the year before, printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Tynemouth, St Ives, Padstow, Wick and harbours on the Isle of Man are among the places considered, while engineering sections compare breakwaters at Alderney, Plymouth, Dover and Portland and another plate examines a wave screen. Many of the structures shown are proposals, not works already built.

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