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    England considers Pendennis to be "one of the finest examples of a post-medieval defensive promontory fort in the country". Pendennis Castle was built as a...
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    RMS Pendennis Castle was a Royal Mail Ship, passenger and cargo liner operated by the Union-Castle Line. The vessel served the Union-Castle Line from...
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    November 1978, Pendennis Castle's completed its first passenger run with a return trip from Dampier to Dugite. Modified in 1980, Pendennis Castle was used for...
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  • The Governor of Pendennis Castle was a military officer who commanded the fortifications at Pendennis Castle, part of the defences of the River Fal and...
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    GWR 4073 Class locomotives On 4 March 1967, Nos. 7029 Clun Castle and 4079 Pendennis Castle hauled specials from Banbury and Oxford respectively to Chester...
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    Armada, the defences at Pendennis were strengthened by the building of angled ramparts. During the Civil War, Pendennis Castle was the second to last fort...
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    the castle was invited to retreat to the stronger fortress of Pendennis, but he surrendered immediately without putting up resistance. Pendennis was bombarded...
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    Line's Andes; Shaw, Savill & Albion's Southern Cross; Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle; P&O's Canberra; and Hamburg-America's SS Amerika of 1905. Harland...
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    ships RMS Arundel Castle, RMS Carnarvon Castle and RMS Winchester Castle. The Transvaal Castle was preceded by the RMS Pendennis Castle (delivered in 1958)...
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    against enemy shipping, operating in partnership with its sister castle of Pendennis on the other side of the estuary. During the English Civil War, St...
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    England to be known as castles, long before architectural historians began to argue that they should not be. One of them, Pendennis Castle, was one of the last...
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    Brown & Company, Clydebank. Oswestry Castle – ordered 4 May 1943 from John Crown & Sons, Sunderland. Pendennis Castle – ordered 4 May 1943 from John Crown...
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    Carnarvon Castle and Winchester Castle. Windsor Castle was preceded by Pendennis Castle (delivered in 1958) and followed by Transvaal Castle (delivered...
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  • Pendennis may refer to: Pendennis, a novel by the English author Thackeray. Pendennis Castle, a castle in Cornwall. RMS Pendennis Castle, a ship. GWR 4073...
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    Falmouth, Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom, and is west of Pendennis Castle. It is to the south of Falmouth town centre, but was an essentially...
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    two types from which the Great Western emerged triumphant with 4079 Pendennis Castle. The LNER learned valuable lessons from the trials which resulted in...
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    Maenporth cove faces east across Falmouth Bay with views towards Pendennis Castle and the lighthouse on St Anthony Head. The South West Coast Path runs...
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    beaches before passing around the headland beneath Pendennis Castle to enter bustling Falmouth. The castle was built, along with its twin at St Mawes, to...
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    carried out under the direction of John Killigrew, the captain of Pendennis Castle in Falmouth. Tresco was in need of modern defences, but Killigrew also...
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    php/67/4079-pendennis-castle 4079 Pendennis Castle https://didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/70/5051-drysllwyn-castle-earl-bathurst 5051 Drysllwyn Castle "Home"...
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    original on 25 September 2011. Pendennis Castle for Western Australia The Railway Magazine issue 911 March 1977 page 149 Castle goes down under Railway Gazette...
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    The Union-Castle Line was a British shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977...
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    Berwick-upon-Tweed Hilsea Lines, Fort Monckton, Gosport Pendennis Castle, Falmouth Royal Citadel, Plymouth Star Castle, Isles of Scilly Tilbury Fort The outlines of...
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    Eindhoven), Netherlands Pivka Military History Park, Pivka, Slovenia Pendennis Castle, Cornwall, UK Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson, Hampshire, UK Muckleburgh...
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    Railway steam locomotive Pendennis Castle that had been purchased by Hamersley Iron. Until its October 1994 withdrawal, Pendennis Castle' operated charter services...
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    War and was appointed Vice Admiral of South Cornwall and Governor of Pendennis Castle in 1635. He served in the 1639 and 1640 Bishops' Wars and was elected...
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    Fowey and Lostwithiel from 1690 to 1698. He also served as Governor of Pendennis Castle from 1693 to 1703 and Governor of Barbados from 1703 to 1706, and died...
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    the descent of Wellington Bank in Somerset. Preserved classmate 4079 Pendennis Castle, which worked the Paddington to Westbury leg of the tour before melting...
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    of the Castle Class in 1923. In connection to an event taking place at Didcot Railway Centre involving resident engines 4079 Pendennis Castle and 5051...
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  • (2009). Pendennis Castle and St Mawes Castle. London, UK: English Heritage. ISBN 9781848020221. Rigold, S. E. (2012) [1978]. Yarmouth Castle, Isle of...
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