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of 1627. Returning servicemen brought disease and looting to
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base, is located at the northeast corner of the Sound.
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666:document the event, such as the one shown here.
949:Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World
901:(Report). Plymouth City Council. January 2019
728:, sank near Drake's Island in December 1786.
425:beside the old town of Plymouth, called the
680:on the west side of Plymouth Sound, on her
354:In the centre of the Sound, midway between
856:"The Dockyard Port of Plymouth Order 1999"
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869:Rossiter, Keith (7 January 2020).
516:were built at Bovisand before the
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1090:Geography of Plymouth, Devon
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1095:Landforms of Cornwall
1059:"Plymouth Breakwater"
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542:National Marine Park
453:Plymouth Sound from
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945:Ecott, Tim (2001).
623:The first recorded
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924:. pp. 14–15.
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105:50°21′34.8″N
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468:flying boat
463:, a former
455:Heybook Bay
399:World War I
376:John Rennie
360:Cawsand Bay
321:River Tamar
280:Description
236:Max. length
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165:River Tamar
120: /
95:Coordinates
1079:Categories
977:2001018840
794:References
789:in London.
726:brigantine
713:shipwrecks
435:Turnchapel
415:Royal Navy
403:submarines
384:lighthouse
372:breakwater
341:Cattewater
333:River Plym
244:Max. width
195:River Burn
190:River Inny
185:River Tavy
180:River Plym
108:4°8′34.8″W
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692:on board.
671:HMS
657:in 1815,
655:Rochefort
648:HMS
629:carpenter
625:submarine
586:Mayflower
522:men-o-war
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258:The Sound
955:New York
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659:Napoleon
633:John Day
427:Barbican
358:Bay and
356:Bovisand
347:and the
323:via the
290:Cornwall
274:Plymouth
56:Mewstone
54:and the
766:Lorient
733:P&O
570:Pelican
534:Titanic
510:harbour
445:History
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368:harbour
337:estuary
325:Hamoaze
268:in the
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