[19] On higher ground behind the wharf itself is a contemporary terrace of houses for officers (1720), built from stone rubble excavated during the yard's construction.[13]. Her armaments included - 34 UE150 type mines, one fore and one aft torpedo tubes, four 50 cm torpedoes and an 8.8cm mounted gun on her deck. Gross weight: 2,350 ton. [8] A chapel was built in 1700, alongside the Porter's Lodge at the main gate[9] (it was destroyed by a fire in 1799). Having dismissed the Plymouth site as inadequate, he settled on the Hamoaze area which soon became known as Plymouth Dock, later renamed Devonport. In 1758, the Plymouth and Portsmouth Fortifications Act provided the means to construct a permanent landward defence for the dockyard complex. 740-1/4/175 HMS Drake: Wardroom, Officer's each side with pilasters, cornices and wainscot, and the rear These observations were further verified by divers from DAERAs Marine Scientific Dive Team in 2016. Rathlin Island SPA, Irish Wrecks Online Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment. Records of HMS Drake from other sources. The base employs 2,500 Service personnel and civilians, supports . Original Publication: Picture Post - 7161 - The Best And Worst Of British Cities 4 -. Areas to the south and east (with the exception of the area now occupied by Princess Yachts) are being retained by the MOD,[54] with No. [6] Previously the Navy Board had relied upon timber as the major building material for dry docks, which resulted in high maintenance costs and was also a fire risk. Nearby public transportation stops & stations: 170 ft HMS Drake. Information drawn from Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland (HERoNI), Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division. [16], The dockyard suffered severe damage in a large-scale fire on 25 September 1840, it started in the North Dock on HMSTalavera and Imogene were completely gutted, threatened HMSMinden, and spread to nearby buildings and equipment. © Crown Copyright and database right 2023. [65], Another explanation is that the name came from the Hindi word for a yard (36 inches), "guz", (also spelled "guzz", at the time) which entered the Oxford English Dictionary,[66] and Royal Navy usage,[67] in the late 19th century, as sailors used to regularly abbreviate "The Dockyard" to simply "The Yard", leading to the slang use of the Hindi word for the unit of measurement of the same name. A "tiddy oggy" is naval slang for a Cornish Pasty and which was once the nickname for a sailor born and bred in Devonport. Attended by tugs in Plymouth Sound this afternoon. public car parking and toilets, slipways etc, Anecdotal information on possible hazards at the site for divers and snorkellers. Another memorable story is that of a local landlord being invited by the skipper and crew to continue the evening's session aboard ship, he eventually came round on his way to Iceland - the trawler made a detour and dropped him off on the Faroes. The site is comprised of the metal wreck of the Drake and a further metal wreck of a 52m Fleetwood fishing trawler, the Ella Hewett that struck and sunk atop the Drake in 1962. long enough to accommodate two ships of the line, end to end) was added, just north of the basin, in the 1720s. She had left Norfolk, Virginia with convoy HH24 and was bound for Liverpool with cotton, steel and alcohol. centre block flanked by symmetrical 2:1:2-bay fronts which are Left of the tower is the The docks Dummer designed were stronger with more secure foundations and stepped sides that made it easier for men to work beneath the hull of a docked vessel. officers were housed in Howard and Seymour blocks (qqv) before buildings at HMS Pembroke at Chatham and HMS Nelson at 655 & 656; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR Swindon: PLM 248-284).Listing NGR: SX4499756685. HMS DRAKE WARDROOM, OFFICERS QUARTERS AND MESS, SALTASH ROAD, Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Your email address will not be published. Until the late nineteenth century, sailors whose ships were being repaired or refitted, or who were awaiting allocation to a vessel, were accommodated in floating hulks. All blocks have The deep-water access it offers has made the site desirable for manufacturers of 'superyachts' and in 2012 Princess Yachts acquired the freehold to 20 acres (0.081km2) at the southern end, with a view to building a construction facility. Add a Name to this List Rathlin SAC The IB MYP program aims to facilitate maximum academic achievement, develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect as they become lifelong learners. HMS Drake Learning & Development Hub Bldg B046 (West) Upper Battery Road HMS Drake PLYMOUTH PL2 2BG Mil: 9375 65362 HMNB Clyde - LDO (North) HMNB Clyde Learning & Development Hub Bldg 1320 HMNB Clyde HELENSBURGH G84 8HL Mil: 93255 3641 HMS Sultan HMS Sultan Learning & Development Hub Raven Building HMS Sultan Military Road GOSPORT PO12 3BY Explore the many ways you can help to support the incredibly rich and varied heritage. For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948. You are free: to share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix - to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. English Heritage calls it 'one of the most remarkable engineering buildings in the country'. This includes the Navy's assault ships HMSAlbion and HMSBulwark. Other fronts have tripartite entrances and 1st-floor balconies Search over 400,000 listed places. PLAN: central double-depth wardroom linked by 1st-floor This typically relates to the stage of the tide, Details of nearest facilities to dive site i.e. The lines ran from Morice Yard on the River Tamar, enclosing the whole dockyard and town, finally meeting the river again at Stonehouse Pool, a total distance of 2,000 yards (1,800 metres). Date of Loss 02/10/1917. The records staff at the Historic Environment Division would encourage divers to send them a short report on any diving undertaken on the HMS Drake wreck site to assist in monitoring the wreck (see Record Heritage). As a young teenager, I remember the frequent visits of Fleetwood trawlers to Ballycastle. 1898 saw the barracks expand to accommodate a further 1,000 men. The wreck was sold in 1748. The nuclear submarine refit base was put into special measures in 2013 by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and it could be 2020 before enhanced monitoring ceases. [9], Provision of ships' armaments was not the responsibility of the Navy but of the independent Board of Ordnance, which already had a wharf and storage facility in the Mount Wise area of Plymouth. How to play tier 9 British heavy cruiser HMS Drake World of Warships Wows review guide ship upgrades UK British Royal Navy heavy cruisers captain skills revi. Construction of an onshore barracks, just north-east of the North Yard, was completed in 1889 with accommodation for 2,500; sailors and officers moved in during June of that year. Edmund Dummer, Surveyor of the Navy, travelled the West Country searching for an area where a dockyard could be built; he sent in two estimates for sites, one in Plymouth, Cattewater and one further along the coast, on the Hamoaze, a section of the River Tamar, in the parish of Stoke Damerel. Sailors lived in hulks until the first barracks A serving Royal Navy officer, usually of rear-admiral rank, was appointed as admiral-superintendent of the dockyard; however, the post was sometimes held by a commodore-superintendent or even a vice-admiral. The site is approximately 500m south-west of Church Bay and is marked with a large yellow marker buoy. Helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Like their famous predecessor, Francis Drake, these sailors, from HMS 'Drake', find time for a game of bowls on Plymouth Ho before reporting for duty. Ldg.Sea. A general view of the line of ships during the Naval Review at Spithead RMG P00022.tiff 4,800 3,497; 48.02 MB. Devonport. [33], In 2011 the MOD sold the freehold of the North Yard to the Dockyard operator, Babcock; the site includes six listed buildings and structures, among them the Grade I listed Quadrangle.[34]. [16], In 1895 the decision was taken to expand the Keyham Steam Yard to accommodate the increasing size of modern warships. Then let other divers know about this site from your experience! similar to the fronts of the rear wings. Portsmouth. U79 survived the war and was interned on 11th November 1918 and subsequently surrendered - all the confiscated U-Boats were either scrapped or divided amongst the allies. Source Historic England Archive BB83/04456. [63] Another explanation advanced is that "GUZZ" was the radio call sign for the nearby Admiralty wireless station (which was GZX) at Devil's Point,[64] though this is disputed and has recently been disproved by reference to actual wireless telegraphy callsigns in existence over the past century. 3 Basin was the frontispiece to a huge integrated manufacturing complex. By this time the surviving crew members had been transferred to other vessels in the vicinity. The wreckage extends for c. 160m and is 32m wide at its widest. Thirteen out of service nuclear submarines were stored at Devonport in 2018. GIS Maps Search. STYLE: Free Classical. HMS Dartmouth ( Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon) Includes Hindostan as static training ship HMS Excellent ( Whale Island, Portsmouth) Includes Bristol as static training ship HMS Raleigh (Torpoint, Cornwall) Includes Brecon as static training ship HMS Sultan (Gosport, Hampshire) HMS Temeraire (Portsmouth) Other Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive. Follow the links for more information about the species on the NBN Atlas Northern Ireland website, A link to the dive site location on the NBN Atlas Northern Ireland website, showing all species records from within a 1km boundary of the site centroid. HM Naval Base Devonport is the home port of the Devonport Flotilla which includes the Trafalgar-class submarines. A further, double-dock (i.e. HMS Shah (formerly the USS Jamaica, which was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1943) 1943-45, HMS Appledore - base and training ship in Devon, 194546. On October 2, 1917, HMS Drake was torpedoed by the German U-29, and her boiler room was flooded. From 1934 until the early 21st century the naval barracks on the site was named HMS Drake (it had previously been known as HMS Vivid after the base ship of the same name). Since then, the museum has expanded and now occupies, in addition, the 18th-century Pay Office[57] and Porter's Lodge. painted panels; axial corridor with bedrooms on upper floors. Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area. We would go down to the quay to watch these visitors come ashore to make what I was told was a 'last port of call' to get supplies they needed before heading out for their long and arduous time in the Icelandic fishing grounds. 1 Basin and No. Despite the obvious damage sustained divers from Wessex Archaeology were able to discern in 2006 that there remains not only a main body of wreckage in reasonable condition but intact and recognisable structural remains. Many stories surround the sinking and why she hit the wreck, a relative of mine listened to the May Day call on his wireless set in Ballintoy, the Portrush lifeboat came to her assistance and took the crew off with no casualties. Perform a free public GIS maps search, including geographic information systems, GIS services, and GIS databases. See HMS Drake, Plymouth on the map. In 1832 the Navy Board was abolished, everything except the gun wharves were brought under the direct control of the Admiralty. [45] The site includes within it several listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments, most notably the Grade I listed East Ropery,[46] together with several other 18th-century buildings and structures associated with rope-making in the Yard, the covered slip (No. All rights reserved. This article is about the Royal Navy base in Plymouth, England. Descriptive location referring to nearest landfall i.e. The building still stands, and is Grade I listed; architectural detailing was by Sir Charles Barry. Members who served with HMS Drake Welcome to Forces Reunited the place where you can find information and friends from HMS Drake . The remains of the trawler partially overlays the Drake near its bow end. . [59], In 2018, the UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee criticised the slow rate of decommissioning of these submarines, with the Ministry of Defence admitting that it had put off decommissioning due to the cost. Range was 2,000 miles at 13 knots. paired sashes, then next bays on either side have tall sashes. DML had been running the Dockyard since privatisation in 1987.[2]. In 2013 a new Royal Marines base, RM Tamar, was opened alongside; as well as serving as headquarters for 1 Assault Group Royal Marines, it can accommodate marines, alongside their ships, prior to deployment. She had a crew complement of 32 seamen. This is a list of shore establishments (or "stone frigates") of the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. Kevin Robertson & Leslie Oppitz. 4 Slip having been recently refurbished for use with landing craft. Learn how your comment data is processed. The wreck is well broken up into large metal plates, therefore be mindful of sharp edges. the Olympic had sailed empty from New York, HMS Essex escorted her for part of the crossing and she was met by the Drake in the Northern Approaches and escorted to port. The Engineering College moved to nearby Manadon in 1958; the Jacobethan-style building then went on to house the Dockyard Technical College for a time, but was demolished in 1985. The town that grew around the dockyard was called Plymouth Dock up to 1823, when the townspeople petitioned for it to be renamed Devonport. [17] Initially used for the manufacture of anchors and smaller metal items, it would later be expanded to fashion the iron braces with which wooden hulls and decks began to be strengthened; as such, it provided a hint of the huge change in manufacturing technology that would sweep the dockyards in the nineteenth century as sail began to make way for steam, and wood for iron and steel. Sand gobies Pomatochistus minutus, the burrowing anemone Cerianthus lloydii and the slender sea pen Virgularia mirabilis(a Northern Ireland Priority Species) occur on the adjacent sandy seabed. There remains intact and recognisable structural remains; for example, an improved Martin Type anchor and some visible chain to the west of the main wreckage (bow end); the partially buried remains of the ram bow; a praravane skeg used for mine clearance; parts of the armour belt hull; articulated elements of the stern including upright frames and horizontal beams; a hawse hole; steering gear and rudder (with fitting and machinery for turning the rudder); a probable BL 6-inch (152mm) MK VII gun; open internal spaces and bulkheads and a port propeller shaft (near SW edge of wreckage). The nuclear-powered submarine HMSCourageous, used in the Falklands War, is preserved in North Yard as a museum ship, managed by the Heritage Centre. At the heart of his new dockyard, Dummer placed a stone-lined basin, giving access to what proved to be the first successful stepped stone dry dock in Europe. Below Dived here recently? By boat from Rathlin or Ballycastle Harbour. Devonport would no longer be used as a base for attack submarines after these moved to Faslane by 2017, and the Type 45 destroyers are based at Portsmouth. There are many local stories of skipper's being carried out of pubs by the crew and taken down to the quay in the back of a van, the first mate or whoever was able, having to take the trawler out from the Bay. Species of interest are highlighted. Search over 400,000 listed places Overview Official List Entry Comments and Photos Previous Overview Next Comments and Photos It was here that Dummer built his groundbreaking stone dry dock (completely rebuilt in the 1840s). [18], Despite significant damage during the blitz, the South Yard still contains four scheduled monuments and over thirty listed buildings and structures[19] (though some of these have been allowed to fall into a derelict state in recent years: the 18th-century South Sawmills and South Smithery are both on the Heritage at Risk Register). Portsmouth. We are the largest and fastest growing community of UK forces veterans on the web with over 500,000 members! The end bays are canted with 3-light bay windows. [2], In 1880 a Royal Naval Engineering College was established at Keyham, housed in a new building just outside the dockyard wall alongside the Quadrangle where students (who joined at 15 years of age) gained hands-on experience of the latest naval engineering techniques. With such limited manoeuvrability however, HMS Drake collided with the cargo ship Mendip Range at 10.37 am.HMS Drake it seems did not receive much damage from the collision, but the Mendip Range was forced to beach at Ballycastle Bay on the mainland. All students enrolled at HMS are IB students. When a power outage occurs, DTE Energy crews work as quickly and safely as possible to restore power to all of our customers. Several sections of the historic South Yard are no longer used by the Ministry of Defence, though it is still currently a closed site and subject to security restrictions. Located within HMS Drake's Haven and inside the naval base's Wyvern Gym . Public access, i.e., diving on the site is permitted on a look but do not touch basis. staircase; 2 central windows above, then cornice linked to passages on 2-span bridges to double-depth quarters blocks at 2 Basin gave access to three large dry-docks, while No. The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Military units and formations of the United Kingdom, NATO headquarters Allied Forces Southern Europe, http://www.tristandc.com/history1942-1961.php, http://www.birnbeckpier.org/birnbeck_pier_history.php, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/18/a8174018.shtml, Signal! [36], Ships based at the port are known as the Devonport Flotilla. central dining room with panelled walls, large fireplaces with Ballycastle Harbour has a gated slipway (open during office hours) and pontoon berthing. [3] In the early 1970s the newly styled 'Fleet Maintenance Base' was itself commissioned as HMS Defiance; it remained so until 1994, when it was amalgamated into HMS Drake. PO (d.21st April 1941). to help with the costs of keeping the site running. HMS Drake lies on a flat sandy seabed at a depth of between 15-19 metres. HMS Drake (1770) was a 12-gun sloop launched as the civilian Marquis of Granby. 5 Basins (of 10 and 35 acres respectively), linked by a very large lock-cum-dock, 730ft in length, alongside three more dry-docks of a similar size, able to "accommodate ships larger than any war-vessel yet constructed". HMS "DRAKE" Old aerial view of the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport. The site is comprised of the metal wreck of the Drake and a further metal wreck of a 52m Fleetwood fishing trawler, the Ella Hewett that struck and sunk atop the Drake in 1962. This is probably the finest and most ambitious officers mess Boat traffic between Ballycastle and Rathlin. He discarded the earlier three-sectioned hinged gate, which was labour-intensive in operation, and replaced it with the simpler and more mobile two-sectioned gate. In 1860 the main dockyards' policing was also transferred to the new dockyard divisions of the Metropolitan Police, in Devonport's case No. PLYMOUTH SX45NW SALTASH ROAD, Devonport Royal Naval HMNB Devonport dedicates rooms for mums and babies to relax in. central entrance hall divided by marble columns with a large Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development. 028 207 68525 Mobile Number 07803 505084. There were four bastions, Marlborough Bastion to the north, Granby Bastion to the north-east, Stoke Bastion to the east and George Bastion to the south east. For the Royal New Zealand Navy base in Auckland, New Zealand, see, "HMS Drake (shore establishment)" redirects here. These are: Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. INTERIOR: wardroom has a richly-decorated interior with a fine Address: HM Naval Base, Plymouth, United Kingdom, PL2 2BG. [7], Dummer wished to ensure that naval dockyards were efficient working units that maximised available space, as evidenced by the simplicity of his design layout at Plymouth Dock. One survivor was, incredibly, blown straight onto the upper deck, where he landed uninjured. Use our map search to find more listed places. window over 3-light flat-headed window; right of the tower are It also serves as home port to most of the hydrographic surveying fleet of the Royal Navy and eight Type 23 frigates as of 2021. List of ships with the same or similar names, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Drake&oldid=1128898823, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 22 December 2022, at 15:16. From a postcard by the Surrey Flying Services, of Croydon and Plymouth. Royal Navy down to just 5 attack submarines | Navy Lookout", "HMS Triumph has returned to sea after more than 4 years in refit at Devonport. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. HMS Drake was a 12-gun sloop launched as the civilian Marquis of Granby. [29], In the mid-nineteenth century, all royal dockyards faced the challenge of responding to the advent first of steam power and then metal hulls. 1898 saw the barracks expand to accommodate a further 1,000 men. List Entry HMS DRAKE WARDROOM, OFFICERS QUARTERS AND MESS HMS DRAKE WARDROOM, OFFICERS QUARTERS AND MESS, SALTASH ROAD Listed on the National Heritage List for England. In just under three centuries, over 300 vessels were built at Devonport, the last being HMS Scylla in 1971.[12]. Tetrastyle Ionic porch is approached by a double L-plan This is the first time. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. to next stage and entablature below octagonal cupola with Like this page to receive our updates. [13] The three dry docks were rebuilt, expanded and covered over in the 1970s to serve as the Frigate Refit Centre. HMNB Devonport The largest naval base in Western Europe, Devonport has been supporting the Royal Navy since 1691. By 1907 Keyham, now renamed the North Yard, had more than doubled in size with the addition of No. Samuel Whitmore Rogers HMS Drake (d.21st Apr 1941). You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. [35] This part of the site contains some fourteen listed buildings and structures. Water and electricity are available on the pontoon but there is no reliable source of fuel. - HMS Drake during the Second World War -. The southern boundary of his yard was formed by a 'double' rope-house (combining the previously separate tasks of spinning and laying within a single building); the upper floor was used for the repair of sails and a separate rigging house stood nearby. The following transport lines have routes that pass near HMS Drake, Plymouth . Plymouth Drake Sea Cadets & Royal Marine Cadets SO59 Bonaventure House South Yard, just down the road from HMS Vivid and the Naval Hertridge centre 0.00 Miles Away; Serco Integrated Services Hmnb Devonport Bldg So15 0.00 Miles Away; Services Sound & Vision Corporation Frobisher Block 0.01 Miles Away; James Fisher Rumic Building S146 0.01 Miles Away Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Buildings Scheduled monuments Parks and gardens Battlefields Shipwrecks. This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. staircase bay with tall double-transomed 3-light round-arched Follow VHF radio Channel 16 (156.8 MHz), the international distress frequency. Armaments included - two primary 4 inch (QF) guns, two secondary 3-inch QF guns and two 21 inch torpedo tubes.S.S. Her armaments included two primary 9.2-inch centre line turrets, sixteen secondary 6-inch single barbettes, twelve auxiliary twelve pounders, three auxiliary three pounders and two eighteen-inch submerged torpedo tubes. parapet with lower cornice; original horned sashes with User contributions are not fact checked and do not represent the official position of Historic England. moulded hoods above 1st-floor windows, apron entablature to Hampshire Railways Remembered. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. Patients using these may have an infectious disease which may need a degree of isolation or an acute illness needing the oversight of a clinician. This broke the ship in two, the bow section sank in the Sound and the stern section was eventually towed into Londonderry, the explosion killed thirty-one seamen. [2], Further north still, Weston Mill Lake (at one time Devonport's coaling yard) was converted in the 1980s to provide frigate berths for the Type 22 fleet. HMS Brisk was built in 1910, a type H (Acorn) destroyer with a top speed of 27 knots. The vast site covers more than 650 acres and has 15 dry docks, four miles of waterfront, 25 tidal berths and five basins. Plymouth Naval Base Museum opened in 1969 following an appeal from the office of the Admiral-superintendent for items of memorabilia and was housed in the Dockyard Fire Station. Stoker Sydney Green HMS Drake (d.18th Jan 1944), OS J Metcalfe HMS Drake (d.5th May 1941), PO. importance of the Royal Navy at this time. Read the Enriching the List Terms and Conditions. 1 Slip) and the 'King's Hill Gazebo', built to commemorate a visit by King George III.[47]. 5 Basin was converted to serve as a new Fleet Maintenance Base, to be built alongside a Submarine Refit Complex for nuclear submarines; an 80-ton cantilever crane, one of the largest in western Europe, was installed to lift nuclear cores from submarines in newly built adjacent dry docks. All but two sailors working in the boiler room that day were killed. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships. An inspection of HMS Drake's crew at Devonport near Plymouth. These can be converted to DMS or DDM by following the link below. [48] As of 2016 the northern section of the South Yard (including the 18th-century dry docks, Nos. The smithery with its fire and forge was positioned to the north, safely separate from the other buildings. However, Devonport retains a long-term role as the dedicated home of the amphibious fleet, survey vessels and half the frigate fleet. Weston Mill Dock, (lamel's Head Gate) Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, PL2 2BG round arches and Ionic columns plus further entablature sloped AB. In 1689 Prince William of Orange became William III and almost immediately he required the building of a new Royal Dockyard west of Portsmouth. 10thFeb 2023 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. Do you have any additional information for this dive site you would like to contribute? The base began as Royal Navy Dockyard in the late 17th century, but shipbuilding ceased at Devonport in the early 1970s, although ship maintenance work has continued. 2 Slip and moored alongside the quay wall". 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