Everything about Spithead totally explained
Spithead is an area of the
Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in
Hampshire,
England. It is protected from all winds, except those from the southeast. It receives its name from the Spit, a sandbank stretching south from the Hampshire shore for 5 km (3 miles); and it's 22.5 km (14 miles) long by about 6.5 km (4 miles) in average breadth.
The "
Spithead Review of the Royal Navy" is famous, where the
Monarch of the
United Kingdom reviews a large fleet of
warships.
In
1797 there was a
mutiny (the
Spithead mutiny) in the Royal Navy fleet at anchor at Spithead.
Spithead has been strongly defended since
1864 by fortifications completing those of
Portsmouth.
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