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THE See also:NORE , a sandbank at the mouth of the See also:river See also:Thames, See also:England, marked by various buoys and by a lightship, with revolving See also:light . This See also:ship lies 3 M. from the nearest point on the See also:Kent See also:coast, about the same distance from the See also:Essex coast, and 471 M. below See also:London See also:Bridge . The first light was placed here as an experiment by Mr Hamblin, its patentee, in 1731 . In 1797 the neighbouring anchorage was the See also:scene of a See also:mutiny in the See also:British See also:fleet then lying here, well known in See also:history as the Mutiny of the See also:Nore . |
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