• HMS Marazion was a Hunt-class minesweeper launched by Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, Yard No 453, on 15 April 1919 and sold in March 1933 in Hong Kong. She...
    3 KB (93 words) - 15:43, 14 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Marazion
    Marazion (/mærəˈzaɪən/; Cornish: Marhasyow) is a civil parish and town, on the shore of Mount's Bay in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 2 miles...
    21 KB (2,558 words) - 14:25, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Titania
    mentions HMS Titania and HMS Marazion (1919). It appears that Marazion was serving with the 4th Flotilla, filling the void left by the departure of HMS Ambrose...
    21 KB (2,305 words) - 21:12, 16 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marazion Town Hall
    Marazion Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Marazion, Cornwall, England. The town hall, which currently includes a museum on the ground...
    7 KB (707 words) - 10:32, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sandy Woodward
    Sandy Woodward (category People from Marazion)
    the Task Force of the Falklands War. Woodward was born on 1 May 1932 at Marazion, near Penzance, Cornwall, to a bank clerk. He was educated at Stubbington...
    13 KB (1,051 words) - 15:10, 29 April 2024
  • 9 June 1931, while exercising on the surface with the submarine tender Marazion 20 mi (32 km) north of the vessels' base at Weihai, and despite excellent...
    10 KB (818 words) - 17:15, 4 October 2023
  • HMS Heythrop (both 1917), HMS Mallaig, HMS Malvern and HMS Munlochy (both 1918) and HMS Marazion (1919) and several Strath-class naval trawlers. In the...
    6 KB (618 words) - 17:49, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Warspite (03)
    HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in...
    67 KB (7,903 words) - 11:08, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Michael's Mount
    (United Kingdom). The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a causeway of granite setts, passable (as is the beach) between mid-tide...
    38 KB (4,152 words) - 17:10, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Aylmer (cricketer)
    HMS Adamant and HMS Pigmy, before commanding the minesweeper HMS Marazion from 1930 to 1932, during which the ship was present at the sinking of HMS Poseidon...
    7 KB (668 words) - 02:00, 20 March 2024
  • 4919°W / 50.1292; -5.4919 (Marazion railway station)) (324 miles 53 chains or 522.49 kilometres) was opened at Marazion (Cornish: Marghasyow) by the...
    28 KB (3,608 words) - 00:33, 12 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Queen Elizabeth-class battleship
    Naval Programme, the four Iron Duke-class battleships and the battlecruiser HMS Tiger were being ordered and preliminary design work had begun on the new...
    36 KB (4,439 words) - 12:06, 3 February 2024
  • John Cole (academic) (category People from Marazion)
    Oxford. Cole was originally from Marazion in Cornwall, southwest England. He served as a chaplain in the Royal Navy (HMS Royal Oak) during the American...
    5 KB (413 words) - 04:00, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Vulture II (Treligga Aerodrome)
    media related to HMS Vulture II (Treligga Aerodrome). 50°37′48.80″N 04°45′44.67″W / 50.6302222°N 4.7624083°W / 50.6302222; -4.7624083 HMS Vulture II was...
    8 KB (1,234 words) - 00:06, 4 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Penzance
    Cornwall. Larger quantities of Roman coins have been found nearby, at Marazion Marsh and Kerris in Paul parish, but there is no evidence of any Roman...
    85 KB (11,027 words) - 23:35, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Doom Bar
    for HMS Whiting. Nautical Archaeology Society. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012. Court Martial papers regarding HMS Whiting...
    40 KB (4,152 words) - 23:24, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (20th century)
    partially scrapped. In 1950 she was towed to, beached and broken up at Marazion. 25 June – fishing vessel Energetic (PZ 114) ( United Kingdom) was hit...
    132 KB (14,619 words) - 16:21, 6 August 2024
  • Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway Luke Vibert Maenporth Mainland Maps of Cornwall Marazion Maritime Line Mark Prisk Matthew Taylor (Liberal politician) Mawgan Porth...
    18 KB (2,033 words) - 22:46, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prussia Cove
    April 1947 HMS Warspite ran aground here whilst being towed to the breakers yard. She was later towed to, beached and broken up at Marazion. Cudden Point...
    12 KB (1,401 words) - 11:53, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Penlee Lifeboat Station
    inshore lifeboat (ILB) was stationed on the opposite side of Mount's Bay at Marazion (although it was actually kept at St Michael's Mount) in 1991. It proved...
    19 KB (1,818 words) - 17:50, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Issey
    wet heaths, valley mires and scrub. On 28 December 1942 the British tug HMS St. Issey (Lt. J. H. W. Howe, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine...
    6 KB (609 words) - 09:06, 11 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of shipwrecks of Cornwall
    Cornwall. January – Margaretta ( Batavian Republic) was driven ashore near Marazion, while on a voyage from Rotterdam to a French port. 6 February – Hall ( Great...
    47 KB (5,494 words) - 00:59, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christopher Cole (Royal Navy officer)
    Christopher Cole (Royal Navy officer) (category People from Marazion)
    in Marazion, Cornwall. In May 1780 at age nine, Cole was sent to sea to accompany his brother John, chaplain on the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Royal...
    16 KB (1,579 words) - 09:31, 12 August 2024
  • be the third highest village in Cornwall. Treligga military airfield and HMS Vulture II, an aerial bombing and gunnery range, were situated west of the...
    14 KB (1,484 words) - 19:12, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boscastle
    protected by two stone harbour walls built in 1584 by Sir Richard Grenville (of HMS Revenge). It is the only significant harbour for 20 miles (32 km) along the...
    13 KB (1,490 words) - 03:26, 19 October 2024
  • in the 1830s was a friend and shipmate of Charles Darwin on the historic HMS Beagle voyage (which docked in Falmouth on 2 October 1836, an event briefly...
    14 KB (1,779 words) - 11:06, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hunt-class minesweeper (1916)
    October 1943, now known as Uj.2109, she was sunk by the destroyers HMS Eclipse, HMS Faulknor and the Greek destroyer Vasilissa Olga. The first group of...
    35 KB (837 words) - 21:01, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pub names
    declared Royal Oak Day and the pub name remembers this. The Royal Naval ship HMS Royal Oak gets its name from the same source. Early ships were built of the...
    103 KB (11,081 words) - 02:03, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Mary's Old Church, St Mary's
    sons of Rear Admiral Sir John Narborough, who both died in the sinking of HMS Association in 1707. Also buried here is Ann Cargill (1760–1784), an 18th-century...
    6 KB (516 words) - 15:58, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Keverne
    A 32-pounder carronade that divers recovered in 1978 from the wreck of HMS Primose stands by the lych-gate to the churchyard. (Primrose was wrecked...
    14 KB (1,594 words) - 10:15, 27 September 2024