Whitesand Bay (Cornish: Porth Senan, meaning cove at Sennen) is a wide sandy bay near Land's End in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It stretches...
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Whitesands Bay (Welsh: Porth Mawr) is a Blue Flag beach situated on the St David's peninsula in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales. Whitesand...
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Woodward, 1990 p.31 Record Plans of Whitesand Bay Batteries, The National Archives, WO78/5052 Moore, David, 2010. Whitesand Bay Battery Plymouth, Redan:Journal...
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HMS Whitesand Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Whitesand Bay in Cornwall. In commission from 1945 to 1954...
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Whitesand, or Whitesands or White Sand may refer to: Whitesand Bay, a beach in Cornwall, England, UK Whitesands Bay (Pembrokeshire), a beach in Wales...
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English Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1694. She foundered at Whitesand Bay, Sennen Cove on 16 January 1704 with the loss of approximately one hundred...
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by solid fuel, a special one powered by butane gas (used aboard HMS Whitesand Bay) and a third one used in the Wembley stadium, made of stainless steel...
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Cockade, HMS Charity Frigate: HMS Mounts Bay, HMS Morecambe Bay, HMS Whitesand Bay, HMS Cardigan Bay, HMS St Brides Bay, HMS Chevron (unsourced) Sloop: HMS...
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September 1497 when the pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay, near Land's End, on 7 September with just 120 men in two ships. Warbeck...
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Sennen Cove. The village of Sennen Cove overlooks the southern end of Whitesand Bay. There is not a cove in the usual geological sense. The village (as...
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