Harwich harbour is on the estuaries of the River Stour and River Orwell and was for a long time the only safe anchorage between the River Thames and the Humber. The harbour has twin towns at its entrance: Felixstowe on the north and Harwich on the south side. Shotley is a smaller third town on the point where the harbour divides into the two rivers, and there is a Royal Navy station here.

"Harwich" is pronounced by the locals to rhyme with "marriage".

AppearancesEdit

• Harwich harbour is the setting for Goblin dragging her anchor with the Swallows aboard without the yacht's skipper (Jim Brading was ashore getting petrol) (WD)
• At the end of We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, Ted Walker starts a job for the Royal Navy at Shotley naval station.
• The Walker family sail Goblin from Harwich harbour to the Secret Archipelago (SW).

Native prototypeEdit

Arthur Ransome used the actual Harwich harbour with little or no fictional embellishment.

• Wikipedia:Harwich