Discovery Quay detail - Falmouth
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Welcome to the Discovery Quay From the quayside and the National Maritime Museum Cornwall (NMMC), there are fine vistas of the harbour with Falmouth’s historic fabric of tiered harbourside properties dominating the waterfront.
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A structure called the Submarine Pier which projected 130 metres out into the harbour from near the Killigrew monument was built in 1890 by the Falmouth Volunteer Division Submarine Miners, Royal Engineers. A vessel used to lay electronically detonated mines on the seabed was loaded at the wharf. Learn more about Falmouth at www.falmouth.co.uk.
The Admiralty had four naval centres called “Forts” located in the town during WWII. Fort II close by in Arwenack Street was the Pay Office.
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RECORD BREAKER Dame Ellen MacArthur sailed from Falmouth in 2004 on her trimaran B&Q Castorama. The following year she tied up alongside the Maritime Museum after her epic record breaking, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe.
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HMRY Britannia in Falmouth as part of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee tour 1977. Credit: Royal Navy
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The Port Pendennis marina village and NMMC are built on land reclaimed from the sea in the 1980s. Manorial tidal mills existed here during the 1600s near the current Maritime Museum site. Bar Creek, a tidal inlet where the marina village now stands supported a number of waterside industries including corn and flour merchants, boatyards, pilchard cellars, timber ponds and sawmills. The sea originally went up as far the road on all sides and within 15 metres of the Killigrew monument.
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“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” [Joseph Conrad, novelist 1857-1924]
Discovery Quay
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sis u f e Tr t n Po i
Fa l m
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ks
Welcome to the Discovery Quay From the quayside and the National Maritime Museum Cornwall (NMMC), there are fine vistas of the harbour with Falmouth’s historic fabric of tiered harbourside properties dominating the waterfront.
u o y Did ? w o kn
nk
A structure called the Submarine Pier which projected 130 metres out into the harbour from near the Killigrew monument was built in 1890 by the Falmouth Volunteer Division Submarine Miners, Royal Engineers. A vessel used to lay electronically detonated mines on the seabed was loaded at the wharf. Learn more about Falmouth at www.falmouth.co.uk.
The Admiralty had four naval centres called “Forts” located in the town during WWII. Fort II close by in Arwenack Street was the Pay Office.
e into m a c e t r onapa B n o e oard l b n o r Napo u h harbo and in 1815 t u o m l Fa mberl u h lena. t e r o H t N S S HM exile in o t y a on his w
a nw r o lC b a y Ro h t C l u Ya c
Submarine Pier
ed from Troops p repair for u o r g s d iou practice on a Amphib d n a t f cra in 1944 n landing o i s a v to ay in the D-D ey constructed ports th Waters e slipway h t e r t whe your lef ow situated. is n Centre
www.falmouthport.co.uk
www.falmouth.co.uk
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RECORD BREAKER Dame Ellen MacArthur sailed from Falmouth in 2004 on her trimaran B&Q Castorama. The following year she tied up alongside the Maritime Museum after her epic record breaking, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe.
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HMRY Britannia in Falmouth as part of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee tour 1977. Credit: Royal Navy
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ba n e e
The Port Pendennis marina village and NMMC are built on land reclaimed from the sea in the 1980s. Manorial tidal mills existed here during the 1600s near the current Maritime Museum site. Bar Creek, a tidal inlet where the marina village now stands supported a number of waterside industries including corn and flour merchants, boatyards, pilchard cellars, timber ponds and sawmills. The sea originally went up as far the road on all sides and within 15 metres of the Killigrew monument.
u o y d i D ? nced knothw va e US Ad
ront aterf w s ’ mins] uth mo y [10 l a a u fF eQ y o Hous r o st om he ust C at
o mH
to Cus y a Qu
Disc
yQ over
You
ins] [15m w Vie
uay
e r e H Are
use
“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” [Joseph Conrad, novelist 1857-1924]
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