Doom Bar

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The Doom Bar (formerly known as Dunbar sands , Dune-bar , and similar names) is a sand dune at the mouth of the Camel River estuary, at where he meets the Celtic Sea on the north coast of Cornwall, England. Like two other permanent sandbars above the estuary, the Doom Bar consists mostly of continuous marine sand from the seafloor. More than 60 percent of the sand comes from sea shells, making it an important source of agricultural lime, which has been collected for hundreds of years; an estimated 10 million tons of sand or more was removed from the estuary since the early nineteenth century, mainly by dredging.

The mouth of the estuary, which is exposed to the Atlantic Ocean, is a very dynamic environment, and the sand has experienced a dramatic shift during the storm. Traditionally, Doom Bar was formed during the reign of Henry VIII, destroying the prosperity of Padstow harbor a mile above the estuary.

Until the 20th century, access to Padstow harbor was through a narrow channel between the Doom Bar and the cliffs at Stepper Point, a difficult part for sailing ships to navigate primarily in the north-west pole when the cliffs would cut off the wind. Many ships are damaged in the Doom Bar, although the installation of mooring rings and capstan on the cliffs and mine the Stepper Point section to improve the wind. At the beginning of the 20th century the main channel moved away from the cliffs, and continued dredging had made it much safer for ships, but death had occurred in the bar recently in 1997.

A Cornish folklore legend tells that mermaids created the bar as a dying curse at the harbor after he was shot by a local man. The Doom Bar has been used in poetry to symbolize melancholy feelings, and has given its name to the ale mainstay of Sharp's local Brewery.

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Description

The Doom Bar is a mound of sand in the mouth of a camel estuary on the north coast of Cornwall. This bar consists mainly of rough sediments carried from the seafloor by the bed loading process, and it has been shown that there is a net inflow of sediment to the estuary. This incoming stream is aided by waves and tidal processes, but the exact pattern of sediment transport in the estuary is complex and not fully understood. There is only a very small sedimentary contribution from the Camel River itself: most of the river sediments are deposited much higher above the estuary.

There are three persistent bumps in the camel estuary: Bar Doom; Town Bar in Padstow, about 1 mile (1.6 km) upstream; and Halwyn Bank is only upstream from Padstow, where the estuary changes direction. All three have the same composition; most of their sediments come from the shells of marine mollusks, and as a consequence include high levels of calcium carbonate, measured in 1982 at 62 percent. The high calcium carbonate content of sand means it has been used for hundreds of years to improve the agricultural land by liming. This use is known to date from 1600. High levels of calcium carbonate combined with natural sea salt make the sand precious to farmers as an alkaline fertilizer when mixed with manure.

In a report published in 1839, Henry De la Beche estimates that the sand from Doom Bar counts between a quarter and a quarter of the sand used for farming in Devon and Cornwall. He also stated that about 80 people were permanently employed to dredge the area from several barges, removing approximately 100,000 tonnes of length (100,000,000 kg) of sand per year, which he said he "convinced by a competent person" has caused a reduction in altitude bar between 6 and 8 feet (180 and 240 cm) in the 50 years before 1836. Another report, published some twenty years earlier by Samuel Drew, states, that although sand dunes have been "looted" for centuries they remain unabated. It is estimated that ten million tons of sediment was removed from the estuary between 1836 and 1989, mostly for agricultural purposes and mostly from Doom Bar. Sand is still dredged regularly from the area; in 2009 an estimated 120,000 tons of sand was removed from the surrounding bars and estuaries.

There is a submerged forest below the eastern part of Doom Bar, on Daymer Bay. It is believed to be part of the wooded plains that exist off the coast of Cornwall today before being overcome by sand dunes and coastal sand during the last significant rise at sea level, which ended about 4,000 years ago. Affected when they are in the Atlantic Ocean, the sand in the area is always vulnerable to sudden changes: some houses are said to have been buried one night during a violent storm. According to tradition one of these shifts led to the formation of Doom Bar during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547), leading to a decline in the prosperity of Padstow. Today, the sand dunes cover about 0.4 square miles (1.0 km ²), connecting the beaches near Harbor Cove with the sand plains, although the actual size and shape vary.

The name "Doom Bar" is a corruption of the old name Dunbar originating from dune-bar . Although the bar was commonly known as "Dunbar sand" before 1900, the name "Doom Bar" was used in 1761 (as "the Doom-bar"), and it was also used in poetry, and in the House of Commons papers in the nineteenth century.

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Dangers for delivery

For centuries, Doom Bar was regarded as a significant danger to the ship - to be approached with care not to run aground. When the screen is the main source of power, the ships coming around the Stepper Point will lose wind, causing a loss of class, leaving them to move away from the channel. Sometimes, a gust of wind known as everyday language as a "blemish" blows over a Stepper Point and pushes a ship toward the sand dune. Dropping anchor will not help, because it can not get a firm grip on the sand. Richard Hellyer, the Pilotage Sub-Commissioner in Padstow, provided evidence in 1859 that Doom Bar was considered so dangerous that in storms, ships would risk being damaged on the beach rather than negotiating with the channel to Padstow harbor.

In 1761 John Griffin published a letter in the London Chronicle recommending a method of entering the camel estuary during bad weather, especially when the north-northwest wind blew and described the bolts and rings he had fixed to the cliff. help the ship try to enter the harbor. The Mooring Ring still existed in 1824, and about 1830, three capstans at the base of the cliffs and bollards along the cliffs, which meant the boat could bend safely past the bar mounted.

In 1846, the Plymouth and Padstow Railway companies were interested in trying to eliminate Doom Bar, hoping to increase trading through the port at Padstow. The plan is to create breakwaters in the bar, which will stop the buildup of sand, and the railroad will transport sand from the nearby hills to the places needed for agricultural purposes elsewhere in the southwest.

In the event, both the breakwaters and the railroads were built, but the matter was re-examined by the British Parliament Electoral Committee at the Port for Protection. The select committee took evidence from many witnesses about ports across the country. For Padstow, evidence from Captain Claxton, RN, states that without the removal of sand, ships in trouble can only use the port at high tide. The committee was told by JD Bryant, a port commissioner and Receiver of Wreck for Padstow, that in 1848 the Padstow Harbor Association had cut a little piece of Stepper Point, which had given the ship about 50 extra "fair winds" to the harbor. Bryant recommends the further elimination of the point that will allow the correct wind along the entire channel through a dangerous sand dune.

The report of the selected committee concludes that the bar will return via drainage if dredged, and there are not enough resources to prevent it. Several alternatives are discussed, including building two guiding walls to the sluice gate in the bar, thus removing them. The evidence was given that the bar was made of "hard sand" which proved difficult to remove. During the discussion, it shows that while the sand dunes can be removed by various methods, it will not significantly increase access to the port, and that harbor protection will be better on the Welsh coast.

The final report of the committee determined that along the entire rocky coast between Land's End and Hartland Point, Padstow was the only potentially safe port for shipping trade when the most dangerous northwest marine breeze was blowing. He noted that the safety of Padstow was compromised by Doom Bar and by the eddy-forming effect of Stepper Point. The report recommends an initial expenditure of Ãƒ, Ã‚ Â£ 20,000 to reduce the outside of Stepper Point, which, along with hats, bollards and mooring rings, will significantly reduce the risk for delivery.

During the twentieth century, Doom Bar was dredged regularly to improve access to Padstow. In the 1930s, when Commander H.E. Turner observes the estuary, there are two channels along the Doom Bar, and it is estimated that the main channel may have moved to the east side in 1929. In 2010 the original channel has disappeared. Estuaries are regularly dredged by Harbor Dredgers, Sandsnipe Mannin .

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Shipwrecks

The Doom Bar has donated over 600 beachings, upside down and wreck since recording began in the early nineteenth century, most of which are shipwrecks.

Larger boats entering Padstow offered help, generally by pilots who would wait at Stepper Point when a ship signaled going in. If a boat sank, rescuers would come in and help. There are cases where rescuers are trying to exaggerate the danger in court, thus squeezing more money out of the owners. This happened to the brig The Towan , which broke down in October 1843 but was not in any significant danger. Although they do not need help, rescuers intervene and try to demand a large sum as compensation from their owners.

In 1827, the newly established Life-boat Institution helped fund a permanent lifeboat in Padstow, a 23-foot (7.0 m) long rowboat with four oars. The lifeboat at Hawker's Cove was founded two years later by the Padstow Harbor Association for the Preservation of the Life and Property of Shipwreck. Pastor Charles Prideaux-Brune of Prideaux Place is his patron. In 1879, four granddaughters and their friends were rowing in Doom Bar and saw a plane crash. They rowed to save the drowned sailors. Because it is so unusual for women to save men, the five girls receive the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Silver Medal for their courage.

Despite the safer eastern channels and improvements in maritime technology, the National Lifeboat Institution is still in contact with the incident at Doom Bar. In February 1997, two fishermen who did not wear the lifejacket sank after their boat overturned. Two anglers were killed in a similar incident in 1994. On 25 June 2007, Padstow's lifeboats and rescue helicopters saved the crew of two yachts in separate incidents from the area.

HMS Whiting

The only warship reported to have been damaged in Doom Bar was HMS Whiting , a 12-gun shovel. The Whiting was originally a cargo ship called Arrow , traveling from the United States to France; he was arrested by the Royal Navy on May 8, 1812 and renamed. On September 15, 1816, he ran aground at Doom Bar when the ups and downs and winds were blowing from unfavorable directions offering little help. According to court trial transcript, an attempt to move it was made at the next tide, but he took water and it was impossible to save him.

left out for the next few days and the crew rescues whatever they can. The responsible officer, Lieutenant John Jackson, lost a one-year seniority for negligence, and the three crew were given "50 lashes with nine tails" for desertion. The wreck was sold to rescuers and, despite correspondence that demanded rescue eleven years later, the navy was not interested anymore. The Royal Navy sought to survey the shipwreck in June 1830, by which time the sand dune had covered most of it. In May 2010, a marine research and exploration group, ProMare, and the Nautical Archeology Society, with the help of Padstow Primary School, installed a ship search. The group searched for four sites in Doom Bar, but so far no success.

Antoinette

The largest ship damaged in Doom Bar is believed to be Antoinette , a 1874 barque of 1,118 tons. On New Year's Day 1895, he sailed from Newport in South Wales with a coal load for Brazil, but ran aground near Lundy Island, missing parts of the mast. He was pulled by a steam pull toward Padstow but crashed into the Doom Bar and the rope crane broke, or had to be released. His crew of fourteen and the few who tried to save him were rescued by the lifeboats from Port Isaac and Padstow, which he then drowned quickly.

Attempts by three tugboats from Cardiff to unload the wreck were unsuccessful, but the subsequent spring waves brought the center of the body up into the estuary to the Town Bar, opposite Padstow, where it was dangerous for delivery. A miner named the Pope was called to dispose of him: he used gelignite without success, although the explosion was reported to have damaged many windows in the city. In 2010 the accident, identified almost certainly Antoinette , appeared in the Town Bar. The Royal Navy Disposal Unit failed to destroy it and was marked with a buoy; in March 2011 work began to destroy the rest using a saw.

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In the literature

According to local folklore, Doom Bar was created by the Mermaid of Padstow as a dying curse after being shot. In 1906, Enys Tregarthen wrote that a local Padstow bird, Tristram Bird, bought a new weapon and wanted to shoot something worthy of it. He went hunting seals in Hawker's Cove but found a young woman sitting on a stone rubbing her hair. Accompanied by her beauty, she offers to marry her and when she refuses, she shoots him in revenge, only after realizing that she is a mermaid. When he died, he cursed the harbor with a "destruction bar", from Hawker's Cove to Trebetherick Bay. The strong wind blew that night and when it finally subsided there was a sandbar, "covered with shipwrecks and the bodies of drowned men".

The ballad, The Mermaid of Padstow , tells a similar story from a local named Tom Yeo, who shot a mermaid thinking he was a seal. John Betjeman, who knew the area well, wrote in 1969 that the mermaid met a local man and fell in love with him. When he can no longer live without him, he tries to lure him under the waves but he runs away by shooting him. In his anger he tossed a handful of sand toward Padstow, around which the sand dune grew. In another version of the story, mermaids sing from rocks and a young man shoots him with an arrow, or a greedy man shoots him with a bow. Mermaids are believed to be singing for their victims so they can lure the adulterers to death.

The mermaid legend extends beyond the creation of the Doom Bar. In 1939, Samuel Williamson declared that there was a mermaid comparable to Sirens lying in shallow water and pulling the ship to destruction. In addition, "the cry of a woman's delirious sadness" is said to be heard after a storm where many lives are lost in the sand dunes.

"Ballad of Pentyre Town" Rosamund Watson uses sand dunes for imagery to induce a melancholic feeling when talking about giving up everything for the sake of love. A Victorian poem by Alice E. Gillington, "The Doom-Bar", tells the story of a girl who gives engraved rings to the man she loves before she sails across the Doom Bar, breaking her heart. Four years later, when the water receded lower than usual, his friends persuaded him to walk in the sand where he found the ring inside the shells. Realizing that he had to throw it away the night he left behind, he decided not to be heartbroken, but to sail out to sea himself.

A drama, The Doom Bar , about smuggling and destruction written in early 1900 by Arthur Hansen Bush. Although no interest in London is well received in America, and is scheduled for tours in Chicago and New York. A series of accidents, blamed on the legendary destroyer Cruel Coppinger, culminating in a fire in Baltimore, led to the drama being deemed condemned by the United States actor union and its members banned from appearing in it.

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Doom Bar bitter

The Doom Bar is a bitter (4.0% abv) made by Sharp's Brewery originally at Rock, a village on the other side of Padstow and in Burton-upon-Trent. This is a brewing beer, which accounts for 90 percent of sales and with an output of 24,000,000 liters of imperial (14,000 pounds) in 2010. In 2011, sales increased 22 percent, making it the fastest-growing beer in Britain for three years. consecutive. In June 2013, Doom Bar bitterly became the number one UK cask ale, based on volume and value.

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