Identifier: pictorialdesplym00lond (find matches)
Title: A pictorial and descriptive guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport with excursions by river, road and sea
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Publisher: London, Ward
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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inder that theTamar is fed by innumerable small streams, rangingin size from the Tavy, a river of considerable importance,to the veriest rivulet. The Hamoaze is one of the greatnaval anchorages of the world, and the steamer proceeds— Through lines of stately ships ; and as we passThe tale goes quickly round of glories old,Of battles won on the great sea—of chiefsWhose daring flags triumphantly were borneBy this or that famed vessel. Noiseless newIs each forsaken structure ; save when soundsThe listless keepers foot, nought else invadesThe deep impressive silence of those decksWhere lately trod a thousand gallant men. Rounding Devils Point, we pass on the left the beautifulgrounds of Mount Edgcumbe, while opposite are themassive buildings of the Victualling Yard at Stonehouse.From this point for several miles warships of varioustypes are seen. The wooden walls of England haveall passed away to the yards of the shipbreakers, or beentransformed into hulks, in which form thev lose the
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WARD LOCK, 4 CO.. Ltd Warwick House, Salisbury Square LONDON THE HAMOAZE 87 features to which they owed most of their picturesque-ness. One of the few still left to Plymouth is the oldthree-decker Impregnable, which is moored almost underthe shadow of Mount Edgcumbe. She was one of thelast wooden ships built for the British Navy, and afterconstruction was towed round to Devonport, where shehas been continuously used as a training-ship. Hertimbers, could they speak, would tell a tale of usefulservice to the Navy rather than of glorious deeds. Nearthe Impregnable are some ships of the DevonportDivision of the Home Fleet, all kept in readiness for seaat the call of duty. The modern battleship and the oldthree-decker moored in close proximity represent insome measure the great developments which have takenplace since Nelson, in just such another vessel as theImpregnable, won his great and final triumph in TrafalgarBay. On the left we pass the creeks of Millbrook and St.Johns, the former a

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