Mahón (Spanish: [maˈon]), officially Maó (Catalan: [məˈo], locally [ˈmo]; formerly spelled Mahó), and also written as Mahon or Port Mahon in English,...

HMS Port Mahon has been the name of several ships of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to: HMS Port Mahon (1711), a 20-gun sixth rate launched in...

Port Mahon was a port in Kent County, Delaware, United States located along the Delaware Bay at the eastern end of Port Mahon Road, northeast of Little...

Port Mahon Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located at Port Mahon, Menorca, Spain. It was opened in 1708 and in 1802 the port was ceded back to Spain...

archipelago. Ciutadella and Mahón are the main ports and largest towns. The port of Mahón is the second biggest natural port in the world[citation needed]...

damage. Port Mahon, located at the southern boundary of the Refuge, was named after the capital of the Spanish island of Menorca. Built about 1890, Port Mahon...

Mahon River Lighthouse is a U.S. lighthouse in Port Mahon, Delaware, on the west side of the mouth of the Delaware River. The original Mahon River Lighthouse...

likely, its origin can be found in the port city of Menorca. According to Émile Littré, it may have come from Mahón, capital of Menorca, in the Balearic...

queso de Mahón in Spanish) is a soft to hard white cheese made from cows' milk, named after the town and natural port of Maó (known as Mahón in Spanish)...

him for the rest of his life. In 1814 he was appointed commissioner of Port Mahon Dockyard and the following year he became naval commissioner at the Cape...

of HMS Lively and now on blockade duty near Toulon, to pick him up at Port Mahon. Lively pursues and burns a French supply ship, from which Jack gains...

HMS Port Mahon was a member of the Gibraltar Group of 24-gun sixth rates. After commissioning she spent her career in home waters and North America on...

English Cemetery or Anglo-American Cemetery in Menorca, sometimes the Port Mahon Cemetery or the Christian Cemetery in Menorca, is a cemetery developed...

with Jack Aubrey at a musical performance in the governor's house at Port Mahon did not go well, as Aubrey was despondent about his seemingly stalled...

During the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain annexed Gibraltar and Port Mahon. Spain later attempted to regain control of these territories. Austria...

of Paris in 1783. At the eastern end of the island of Menorca is the port of Mahón, one of the best deep-water anchorages in the Mediterranean Sea. For...

yard operated on site thereafter. Menorca (1708) The Port Mahon Dockyard was established at Port Mahon, one of the world's deepest natural harbours. It was...

French under Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu, land near Port Mahón on Menorca and besiege the British garrison here in a prelude to the Seven...

Nova Scotia (town), Canada Lough Mahon, a sea lough in Co. Cork, Ireland Port Mahon (Delaware), United States Port Mahon, former houses in the Ponderosa...

those at Jamaica and Lisbon closed in 1712, but the naval hospital at Port Mahon, Minorca was retained on a more permanent footing (having moved into a...

century, careening wharves existed at overseas Royal Navy dockyards such as Port Mahon and Halifax. They were important facilities and often the first things...

rocky island in the bay of Mahón, Menorca (Spain). But Ratas island, which was its habitat, was destroyed when Port Mahon was rebuilt. The last sign of...

Collingwood died as a result of cancer on board HMS Ville de Paris, off Port Mahon as he sailed for England, on 7 March 1810. He was laid to rest beside...

Navy Years of service c.1748–1795 Rank Captain Commands HMS Swan HMS Port Mahon HMS Prince of Orange HMS Dolphin HMS Torbay HMS Dublin HMS Queen Known for...

Patterson assumed command on 21 February. By August, she had been put into Port Mahon, suffering decay of her spar deck, and she remained there until temporary...

died aboard her of cancer while on service in the Mediterranean, off Port Mahón, on 7 March 1810. On 22 July 1814, at the conclusion of the Peninsula...

board HMS Hector. Promoted to post-captain in 1741, he commanded HMS Port Mahon for three years before retiring from the navy. He inherited the title...

Minorca in 1756 when a fleet under Admiral John Byng failed to relieve Port Mahon, Britain's main base in the Western Mediterranean (as a result of which...

midshipmen practice Hamlet. Passengers are dropped off at Gibraltar and Port Mahon (Graham, professor of moral philosophy), though the parson Nathaniel Martin...

at their mouth, and requiring care in entering them (Strabo, Eustath.; Port Mahon is one of the finest harbours in the world). Both were extremely fertile...