Spithead

English Channel off the south coast of England, from which it is separated on the north by a channel, called Spithead in its eastern half, and the Solent in its western portion.

A Geography for Beginners. Kensey Johns 1864

This place is called Spithead, and it forms one of the most famous anchoring grounds in the world.

Peter the Great Jacob Abbott 1841

It is a fine, large maritime painting, as befits its provenance, signed and dated by Francis Swaine (1765), and carries the evocative title The Landing of the Sailor Prince at Spithead.

Serendipity 2009

It is a fine, large maritime painting, as befits its provenance, signed and dated by Francis Swaine (1765), and carries the evocative title The Landing of the Sailor Prince at Spithead.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

He asked Home Office minister Lord West of Spithead: Do you think this situation would occur if Mr Wilders had said ban the Bible.

Anti-Islamist politician Geert Wilders refused entry to Britain 2009

Back in June 2007, Mr Brown talked about a government of all the talents (hence the acronym) and looked outside politics for Baroness Vadera and Lords Jones of Birmingham, Malloch-Brown, Darzi of Denham and West of Spithead.

"The goats ... are breeding." Not a sheep 2009

Mutiny in the Royal Navy at Spithead (April-May) and the Nore (May-June).

A Bloomfield Chronology 2009

The Royal George takes no more heed of us than its namesake under water at Spithead, or under earth at Windsor, does.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Spithead, which simulated the sense of being at sea by disguising the viewing platform as the afterdeck of a frigate (see Comment, 24). close window

Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject 2005

Note 76: Compare this food and water allowance with that of the Irish convicts who had been returned from Newfoundland to Spithead in 1789: 3½ lb. of bread, 2 lb. of flour, 3 lb. of pork, 3 pt. of peas, ½ lb. of butter, and 7 gal. of water each per week.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005