HMS Woolverstone, a Royal Navy landing craft training and loading base, was housed in the school and used moorings in the River Orwell between 1943 and 1944.

[6] There is a very detailed account of the Parish of Woolverstone and surrounding area between 1639 and 1661 in the book entitled The English Home of Mr. Timothy Dalton, B.A.

When his favoured cat died he had it stuffed and when he could see that no customs boats were patrolling the river, he put it in the window to signal that the "coast was clear.

"[8] Woolverstone House was designed in 1901 by "arts and crafts" architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and was built for Mrs C. Berners, a lay-sister of the East End Sisters of Mercy.

The yacht club moved to its present site soon after World War II after its previous premises had been demolished for the expansion of the Navy Yard at Harwich.

Spring Lodge Care Home was formerly the parsonage to Woolverstone Hall, which explains the building's grand yet tranquil appearance.