The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 62
New Beacon Channel
New Beacon Channel.
Consequently the new channel must be dredged before the training wall is erected, so as not to interrupt the traffic by building the wall across the channel at present in use, which lies close alongside the West breakwater.
This new channel would have to be cut through a shallow shingle bank, on which the boulders and gravel are so packed that I doubt if the natural scour would have much effect until it was dredged.