The Howland Great Dock in Rotherhithe ( built 1696 and later forming the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks ) was designed to address these problems, providing a large, secure and sheltered anchorage with room for 120 large vessels.

These included West India Docks ( 1802 ), East India Docks ( 1803, originating from the Brunswick Dock of 1790 ), London Docks ( 1805 ), Surrey Commercial Docks ( 1807, originating from the Howland Great Wet Dock of 1696 ), St Katharine Docks ( 1828 ), Royal Victoria Dock ( 1855 ), Millwall Dock ( 1868 ), Royal Albert Dock ( 1880 ), and Tilbury docks ( 1886 ).

View of the Howland Great Wet Dock in 1717 looking west across the Rotherhithe peninsula

It was named Howland Great Wet Dock in honour of John Howland.

The world's first enclosed wet dock with lock gates to maintain a constant water level irrespective of tidal conditions was the Howland Great Dock on the River Thames, built in 1703.

At the time, the Great Dock at Rotherhithe was being constructed, on land leased from Elizabeth Howland, which formed part of the Howland Estate.

Around 1698, he began the construction of the Howland Great Wet Dock on the Thames, on some of his wife's dowry lands in Rotherhithe.

Nevertheless, encouraged by import duty exemptions, the South Sea Company financed 172 unprofitable whaling voyages from London's Howland Dock between 1725-32.

Companies such as: Howland Hook Marine Terminal ; Cadell Dry Dock ; Atlantic Salt ; Reynolds Launch ; Flagg Container Terminal ; Sandy Hook Pilots ; Staten Island Ferry DOT Maintenance Facility ; United States Coast Guard ; Clean Harbors ; May's shipyard ; Moran ', McAllister, Reinauer and K-Sea Towing serve the Kill Van Kull shoreline and the New York Harbor.

Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

Howland Island was uninhabited when the United States took possession of it in 1857 under the Guano Islands Act of 1856.

The settlement was named Itascatown after the USCGC Itasca that brought the colonists to Howland and made regular cruises between the other Line Islands during that era.

The facility was named Kamakaiwi Field after James Kamakaiwi, a young Hawaiian who had arrived with the first group of four colonists, was subsequently picked as leader and spent a total of over three years on Howland, far longer than the average recruit.

Howland was occupied by a battalion of the United States Marine Corps in September 1943 and known as Howland Naval Air Station until May 1944.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

Pomacanthidae | Angelfish and hump coral-Howland Island NWR. On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

Howland Island was overflown in 1967 by Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno and in 1997 by Linda Finch during memorial circumnavigation flights to commemorate Earhart's 1937 world flight.

Jarvis Island was reclaimed by the United States government and colonized from 26 March 1935 onwards, under the Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme ( see also Howland Island and Baker Island ).

" Tubman began attending meetings of suffragist organizations, and was soon working alongside women such as Susan B. Anthony and Emily Howland.

Their intended destination was Howland Island, a flat sliver of land 6, 500 ft ( 2, 000 m ) long and 1, 600 ft ( 500 m ) wide, 10 ft ( 3 m ) high and 2, 556 miles ( 4, 113 km ) away.

The United States Coast Guard cutter was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide them to the island once they arrived in the vicinity.

Through a series of misunderstandings or errors ( the details of which are still controversial ), the final approach to Howland Island using radio navigation was not successful.

During Earhart and Noonan's approach to Howland Island the Itasca received strong and clear voice transmissions from Earhart identifying as KHAQQ but she apparently was unable to hear voice transmissions from the ship.

When Earhart was at cruising altitude and midway between Lae and Howland ( over from each ) neither station heard her scheduled transmission at 0815 GCT.

After all contact was lost with Howland Island, attempts were made to reach the flyers with both voice and Morse code transmissions.

Other Navy search efforts were again directed north, west and southwest of Howland Island, based on a possibility the Electra had ditched in the ocean, was afloat, or that the aviators were in an emergency raft.

" Rear Admiral Richard R. Black, USN, who was in administrative charge of the Howland Island airstrip and was present in the radio room on the Itasca, asserted in 1982 that " the Electra went into the sea about 10 am, July 2, 1937 not far from Howland ".

On July 10, 1944, a U. S. Navy Martin PBM-3-D Mariner flying boat ( BuNo 48199 ), piloted by William Hines, had an engine fire and made a forced landing in the ocean offshore of Howland.

Earhart's voice transmissions to Howland were on 3105 kHz, a frequency restricted to aviation use in the United States by the FCC.

The initial search by the Itasca involved running up the 157 / 337 line of position to the NNW from Howland Island.

Swamp land lying in Gaines Township — about 1000 acres — was purchased by Henry Howland Crapo in 1860.

* Fanny Hill ( USA / West Germany, 1964 ), starring Letícia Román, Miriam Hopkins, Ulli Lommel, Chris Howland ; directed by Russ Meyer, Albert Zugsmith ( uncredited )

by Julia Howland ).

and the fact that Orient Overseas Investment Limited, a company dominated by a Chinese Communist official, has the operating contract for Howland Hook Marine Terminal.

* Howland, R., Jerome Lettvin, Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, and P. D. Wall, " Reflex inhibition by dorsal root interaction ", 1955, Journal of Neurophysiology 18: 1-17.

The Imperial Bank of Canada opened in Toronto on March 18, 1875, founded by former Commerce Vice-president Henry Stark Howland.

Overt the 85 years about a half a dozen mills were operated along the river by such men as W. P. Howland, Thomas Fisher, John Scarlett, William Gamble and Joseph Rowntree.

Known as Lord Howland until his grandfather's death in 2002, when he adopted the courtesy title of Marquess of Tavistock, previously held by his father, Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford.

Peirce was an expert witness in the Howland will forgery trial, where he was assisted by his son Charles Sanders Peirce.

In 1882 she assumed control over the Sherwood Select school as owner and consulting head, a position she held up to her one hundredth year in 1927, at which point it was renamed the Emily Howland School by the New York State Board of Regents.

A new " Idle Hour ", designed by Hunt's son Richard Howland Hunt, was built on the same property from 1900-01 of brick and marble in the English Country Style and is now part of the Dowling College Campus.

*" Fräulein " is the title of a 1960s song sung in German by Chris Howland.

French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine lived for a time in Howland Street in a house on a site now occupied by offices.

UMN is supposedly funded by a wealthy recluse, C. Elliot Friday, who lives in a secret retreat on Howland Island, and emerges every four years to run for President on the Universal Party ticket.

He remarried Marguerite McClure Howland two years later and by that marriage Fenwick had a stepbrother, McClure ( Mac ) Howland.