Liverpool Bay is a bay of the Irish Sea between north-east Wales, Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside to the east of the Irish Sea. Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment The Irish Sea ( Irish: Muir Éireann or Muir Meann; Scottish Gaelic: Muir Eireann Welsh: Môr Iwerddon, Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a county in North West England. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 The Irish Sea ( Irish: Muir Éireann or Muir Meann; Scottish Gaelic: Muir Eireann Welsh: Môr Iwerddon, The bay is a classic example of a region of freshwater influence.
The rivers Alt, Conwy, Dee and Mersey drain into the bay. The River Alt is in Merseyside, England. The Alt runs from Hag Plantation in Huyton at 125ft (40m through Croxteth Park, roughly The River Conwy ( Welsh: Afon Conwy) is a River in north Wales. The River Dee ( Welsh: Afon Dyfrdwy) is a 70-mile-long (110 km River. See also Mersey River (Tasmania and Mersey River (Nova Scotia. The bay is littered with wrecks and has many dive sites. The bay also contains several oil and gas fields with a combined daily capacity (January 2008) of 60,000 barrels. The barrel of oil equivalent (bboe sometimes BOE is a unit of energy based on the approximate energy released by burning one barrel of Crude oil. The UK's first major offshore wind farm, North Hoyle, is located in the south of the bay, which is a busy shipping route to the Mersey Docks. Wales ' first offshore Wind farm, and the UK's first major offshore renewable power project the North Hoyle Offshore Wind Farm in Liverpool Bay, commenced
The land area around the bay is occasionally referred to as the "Liverpool Bay Area". Though the term is seen by some as a possible official alternative to Merseyside, it is more often used to describe a much wider area which may include the West Lancashire towns of Ormskirk and Skelmersdale to the north, Warrington to the east and Chester plus North Wales to the south. Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 West Lancashire is a local government district of Lancashire, England. Ormskirk is a Market town in West Lancashire, England. It is situated north of Liverpool, and southwest Skelmersdale is a town in West Lancashire, England. It lies on high-ground on the River Tawd, to the northeast of Liverpool, south-southwest Warrington is a large town borough and Unitary authority area in Cheshire, England. Chester is the County town of Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77040 North Wales (Gogledd Cymru is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England. In this sense, it is often promoted by local thinkers and urbanists to encourage regional co-operation in both economic and cultural terms. It is not recognised by the British Government as a strategic economic sub-region, however. Her Majesty's Government, or when the monarch is male His Majesty's Government, is the title used by the Government of the United Kingdom, based at Despite having its advocates, the term is still not particularly common in the area.
Notable ships lost in Liverpool Bay
- SS City of Brussels
- Ellan Vannin
- PS Lelia
- Ocean Monarch
- Resurgam
- HMS Thetis
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gv '''''Ellan Vannin''''' (the Manx name for the Isle of Man) was built as an iron Paddle steamer in 1860 in Meadowside Glasgow, she weighed 339 Tonnes PS Lelia was a Steamship built during the American Civil War for use as a Blockade runner for the Confederate States of America Ocean Monarch was an Emigration Barque which caught fire at sea in 1848 with the loss of 178 lives Resurgam ( Latin: "I shall rise again") is the name given to two early Victorian Submarines designed and built by Reverend HMS Thetis Thetis was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, England and launched on 29 June 1938Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic