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...