| Chart Name: | NEW HAVEN HARBOR |
| Scale: | 1:20000 |
| Size: | 36" x 46" |
| Edition #: | 24 |
| Edition Date: | 07/01/05 | (NM 11/15/08) | (LNM 11/11/08) |
| Last Update: | 10/07/08 |
| Description: | New Haven Harbor, an important harbor of refuge, is about 68 miles from New York, 179 miles from Boston via Cape Cod Canal, and 171 miles from Nantucket Shoals Lighted Whistle Buoy N (LNB). It comprises all the tidewater northward of the breakwaters
constructed across the mouth of the bay, including the navigable portions of the West, Mill, and Quinnipiac Rivers. It is about 2 miles wide. The inner harbor, northward of Sandy Point and Fort Hale, is shallow for the most part, except where the depths have been increased by dredging. The main entrance channel, between Middle Breakwater and the East Breakwater, leads northward to Tomlinson Bridge at New Haven. Anchorage basins for medium draft vessels are on the west side of the channel north of Sandy Point. Waterborne commerce in the harbor consists of petroleum
products, scrap metal, lumber, automobiles, gypsum, paper and pulp products, steel products, chemicals, rock salt, and general cargo. |
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| NM = Notice to Mariners LNM = Local Notice to Mariners |
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