Qualla: Ramsey Bay https://qualla.com/ramsey-bay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ramsey Bay https://qualla.com/ramsey-bay Ramsey Bay: Introduction https://qualla.com/ramsey-bay/ Below the surface of the bay there are meadows. Eelgrass meadows, swaying in the cold green water, and beds of pink coralline maerl that look like underwater coral but are alive in their own slow way. There are reefs built by horse mussels stacked together, and forests of kelp where the bottom drops away. Ramsey Bay covers 94 square kilometres off the northeast corner of the Isle of Man, from the Point of Ayre at the island's northern tip down to Maughold Head, and most of what makes it special you would never see from the deck of a boat.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/ramsey-bay-wp/gcsv-ramsey-bay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ramsey Bay: The Island's First Marine Reserve https://qualla.com/ramsey-bay/ In October 2011, under the Wildlife Act 1990, the whole bay was given statutory protection as the Isle of Man's first Marine Nature Reserve. The science behind the designation was straightforward: the bay holds internationally significant areas of eelgrass, horse mussel reefs, ke...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/ramsey-bay-wp/gcsv-ramsey-bay-the-islands-first-marine-reserve.mp3 0:06 2 full Ramsey Bay: The Ship That Played the Hits https://qualla.com/ramsey-bay/ In July 1964, a strange visitor arrived in the bay and stayed for almost four years. The original Radio Caroline ship, which had been broadcasting pirate pop music off the Essex coast, slipped away from the southeast of England and sailed north. It dropped anchor in Ramsey Bay an...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/ramsey-bay-wp/gcsv-ramsey-bay-the-ship-that-played-the-hits.mp3 0:06 3 full Ramsey Bay: The Fleetwood Lady https://qualla.com/ramsey-bay/ On the night of 7 March 1956, the Fleetwood-based trawler Fleetwood Lady anchored in Ramsey Bay so that three of her crew could go ashore and see their families. The six men - Allan Bradford, Arnold Brew, Albert 'Abby' Cottier, Eric Lyall, his son Eric James Lyall, and Reginald W...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/ramsey-bay-wp/gcsv-ramsey-bay-the-fleetwood-lady.mp3 0:06 4 full Ramsey Bay: Looking Out https://qualla.com/ramsey-bay/ Stand on the long sandy beach north of the harbour on a clear day, and the bay opens out east across nineteen kilometres of water before the Lake District peaks of Cumbria climb out of the haze on the English mainland. Whitehaven is 36 miles northeast. The water is colder than it...

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