An Early Traffic Scheme for the English Channel

• Published in: Journal of Navigation
• Main Author: Cotter, Charles H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1979
• Subjects: Ocean Engineering; Oceanography; Lanes; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300037966; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463300037966

The anonymous author of a paper published in the November 1857 issue of The Nautical Magazine, introduced a novel philosophy in relation to the location of lighthouses. At the same time he discussed the proposition for a coastal traffic separation scheme for the English Channel — notorious then, as it still is, for its high incidence of collisions and groundings. The proposal was made just two years after Walter R. Jones of New York made his suggestion to Lieut. M. F. Maury of the United States Navy for an ocean traffic separation scheme which materialized in the form of Maury's ‘steam lanes’ for the North Atlantic.