The Breakwater, Plymouth, from Mount Edgecombe. (c.1840)
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | S SC2222 |
Illustration Reference
SC2222
Location
CD 34 DVD 5
Publication Details
Scope and Content
The stranger's handbook to Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, River Tamar, and vicinities. Devonport: W. Wood, 1850. Fifth Edition. pp. 33-4. Plymouth Sound is about three miles wide at its entrance from the English channel, bounded by a part of Cornwall and Mount Edgcumbe on the west, and the rough coast of Devonshire on the north and north-east. Possessing many advantages over every other harbour on the coast, it became the chief port of rendezvous for ships of war during the last war with France. From the frequent occurrence of storms from the south-west, which endangered vessels at anchor, it was deemed an object of great importance to make the sound a safe roadstead for vessels; consequently, in the year 1811, the government determined on the adoption of a plan submitted to them by Messrs. Rennie and Whidbey, of forming a Breakwater across the middle of the Sound.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Steel l.engr
Dimensions
66x55mm
Note
Top & bottom edges rounded
Aspects
From Mount Edgcombe
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Dates
1840