Fishing boats drawn up onto the shingle of Deal beach in Kent
Fishing boats drawn up onto the shingle of Deal beach in Kent. Deal is a town in Kent, England. It lies on the English Channel eight miles north-east of Dover. It is a small fishing community situated between Dover and Ramsgate. Closely associated with Deal are the villages of Kingsdown, Sholden and Walmer, the latter being where Julius Caesar first arrived in Britain (best guess by historians). Deal was named as a 'limb port' of the Cinque Ports in 1278. Due to its position on the Downs, the town grew to become for a while the busiest port in England; today it enjoys the reputation of being a quiet seaside resort, its quaint streets and houses the only reminder of its fascinating history. The coast of France is approximately twenty-five miles from the town, and is visible on clear days. Clinker building is a method of constructing hulls of boats and ships by fixing wooden planks and, in the early nineteenth century, iron plates to each other so that the planks overlap along their edges. The overlapping joint is called a land. In any but a very small boat, the individual planks will also be joined end to end; the whole length of one of these composite planks is a strake.
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Location: Deal Beach, Deal, Kent, England
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: beach, boat, boats, clinker-built, deal, england, fishing, kent, marine, pebbles, pier, sea, shingle, shingles, summer, tourism, transport, travel, water, wooden
