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Station Information
Station ID:
214
Latitude:
51.957694
Longitude:
1.346556
Coastline code:
170
Station code:
71
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
Time span of RLR data:
1980 – 2011
RLR completeness (%):
82
Time span of metric data:
1917 – 2011
Metric completeness (%):
61
Date of last update:
14 May 2012
Green Arrow:
Current Station
Yellow Marker:
Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker:
Neighbouring Metric Station
Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate
to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.
Felixstowe 170/071 RLR(1983) is 10.5m below TGBM TM3001 3414
Documentation added 1992-04-01
1984-85 Aanderaa gauge - datum queries
Documentation added 1994-07-21
A stilling well gauge, probably a Kelvin-Hughes type, was installed in July 1917 at the "tide gauge pier", replaced in November 1939 by another, probably also a Kelvin-Hughes, at the "Ordnance Pier,Landguard", and replaced in September 1948 by another, probably again a Kelvin-Hughes, at the "tide gauge pier". In 1953 the gauge was damaged in the great floods and in 1954 it was repaired with a Cary-Porter/Kelvin Hughes system. In July 1980 an Aanderaa pressure system gauge was installed, replaced by an "A Class" bubbler in September 1988.
Documentation added 2001-01-02
Recent work on vertical land movements in the UK can be found from the University of Nottingham web site: http://ukcogr.iessg.nottingham.ac.uk/~eosi/
Documentation added 2006-11-15
Historic tide gauge information: In Aug.1996 new pressure points and steelworks were fitted together with a mid-tide sensor. No access to the pressure points has been possible since 1999 as the pier is condemned.
Data Authority
British Oceanographic Data Centre National Oceanography Centre Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool L3 5DA