Debbie V Through the Anchors
by Terri Waters
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Debbie V Through the Anchors
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Terri Waters
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The local fishing boat Debbie V seen through the anchors at Admiralty Quay Mylor in Cornwall. Still a working harbour, used now by fishermen and sailors as it has been by generations of Mylor sea-goers.
Two hundred years ago, in the great days of sail, Mylor was England’s smallest naval dockyard in one of the world’s most strategic ports. In 1805 the British Admiralty developed the site as a Royal Naval dockyard and from 1835 Royal Mail Packet Ships were maintained here. Many of the buildings at Mylor date back to this period.
In 1866 HMS Ganges was moored at Mylor and used as a training ship for cadets. During this time and into the early 1900s the harbour served as a service yard for watering and victualing ships.
During the Second World War, American Navy personnel were stationed here to work on landing craft used in the D-Day landings. The harbour also served as a secret base for Free French Resistance fighters, from which they made undercover forays into occupied France.
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January 13th, 2021
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