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The rise of Plymouth as a naval port

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 30, (1898), illus. pp. 350-361.

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J. Erskine Risk

Prepared by Michael Steer

Plymouth's naval heritage goes back to 700BC, when a site at Mountbatten was the premier port in England. In the 14th century, Plymouth was used as a base for operations against France. It was Drake and his Elizabethan contemporaries, John Hawkins and Sir Walter Raleigh, who really put the port on the map, where it has remained. Devonport is currently the largest naval base in Western Europe. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the New York Public Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.