Lowestoft Sea Timeline
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Christopher Saxton map showed Easton Ness as the most easterly point of Great Britain. Over the next decades, the action of the sea caused the salient to migrate north, to Lowestoft Ness. -
The naval Battle of Lowestoft in June 1665 was the first of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Held 40 miles (64 km) off the coast, it was a clear victory for the English over the Dutch. -
1670's The Lowestoft Lights were re-built again. A few years previously John Clayton had erected a coal-light a couple of miles north at Corton.
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1676 Samuel Pepys was elected a Master of the Trinity Brethren, and immediately sanctioned a new Lowestoft lighthouse. -
1685 A sea survey by Greenville Collins showed the Standford Channel just off-shore (the name eventually contracted to the Stanford Channel).
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1706 the remaining Low Light ceased operation, possibly because "...the sea overwhelmed it..." (p97 Lights of East Anglia by Neville Long, 1983)
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When a fish-house, in the southern part of the town, was entirely washed away, and another fish-house and barn were so exceedingly damaged, as to make it necessary to have them taken down. -
On this day King George II was rescued from the sea on Lowestoft beach in 1737. -
Huge storm. On the coast between Yarmouth and Southwold thirty ships and 200 lives were lost. Eighteen vessels washed up on Lowestoft beaches. -
1778 A 'spangle light' was tested for one night on Lowestoft Low Light by several Trinity Elders sailing out to sea. The design was never permanently used.
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1796 High Light fitted with "eleven Argand burners set in the focus of silvered reflectors" (p102 Lights of East Anglia by Neville Long, 1983)
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1832 Pakefield Lighthouse (red light) built to help navigate through the channel between the Barnard and Newcombe Sands. The station was made of brick.
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1832 Low Light rebuilt with brick foundation to stop it falling into the sea
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1850 Pakefield Light House moved to Kessingland because the channel had shifted. The Pakefield LH tower is still there, in the holiday centre. The light was finally extinguished in 1864.
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As the sandbanks shifted and Pakefield lighthouse was declared redundant and closed in 1864.
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1867 A completely new Lowestoft Low Light, made of wrought iron. It was designed to be moveable. -
Designed by John Louth Clemence the Editor of Ths LANCET. But of course there are many persons who cannot afford to pay a guinea; for them the provident dispensary affords -
1872 - 74 The present High Light was built. It had a new optical revolving light, flashing at half-minute intervals.
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1881 Low Light now also flashes. And had to be moved 80 yards inland, because of erosion.
