| Chart Name: | SALEM & LYNN HARBORS MA |
| Scale: | 1:25000 |
| Edition #: | 31 |
| Edition Date: | 05/01/08 | (NM 08/30/08) | (LNM 08/19/08) |
| Last Update: | 08/11/08 |
| Description: | Manchester Harbor, about 5 miles west-southwest of Gloucester Harbor, is an arm of Manchester Bay extending in a northeasterly direction for 1 mile west of Gales Point to the town of Manchester. The entrance to Manchester Bay is northward of Bakers Island Light,between House Island, partly wooded, on the east, and Great Misery Island on the west. The ruins of two stone houses, one in the center and another on the west end, are on Great Misery Island.
Salem Harbor is about 1.5 miles long in a southwesterly direction. Dominion Energy's power plant dominates the harbor. The city of Salem is on the western side of the harbor. The principal industries are tourism and electrical production. The city has many points of historical interest, including museums devoted
to maritime subjects. Waterborne commerce is principally in petroleum, coal, seafood products and tourism. Salem Harbor is approached from the northward
through a dredged section of Salem Channel.
Lynn Harbor, the northerly end of Broad Sound, is mostly sand and mudflats which largely bare at low water and through which a channel has been dredged to the city of Lynn, an industrial community of major importance. |
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| NM = Notice to Mariners LNM = Local Notice to Mariners |
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