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 MARITIME HISTORY APPENDIX I. BEACONS. Name. Balk (Lizard). . . Beast Point (Lizard). , Black Rock (Falmouth). Cresser (Mount's Bay). . Crow (Scilly). . . . Gear Rock (Mount's Bay). Gribben Head. Established. l8 59. I8 59. Very early. (see p. 500). 1850 1848 I Before 1764. Height in feet above high-water mark. . 217 36 16 21 31 250 Name. Established. Middle Hummock (Lizard). 1859 Raymond (Mount's Bay). 1850 Runnelstone (high). . . 1821 Runnelstone (low). . . 1820 St. Martin's, Scilly. . . 1683 Wolf Rock 1793 Woolpack (Scilly). . . 1848 BUOYS. Name. First laid. Manacles (bell) 1838 Runnelstone (bell) 1825 Wbltsand Bay. Knight Errant (bell) 1892 Falmouth. St. Anthony 1894 Castle 1894 Lugo 1847 East Narrows Vilt St. Just 1896 West Narrows 1894 Governor 1868 Name. Mount's Bay. Mt. Mopus Lowlee. Height in feet above high-water mark. 16 22 22 I8 5 12 21 First laid. 1851 1851 Godrevy. Scilly. Stones 1858 Hats .... Spanish Ledge. South Bartholomew North Bartholomew Old Wreck. . Gunner. 1878 1873 1894 1873 1873 1878 APPENDIX II. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF MEN-OF-WAR BUILT IN CORNWALL, WITH DETAILS OF WAR SERVICES. Abbreviations used : C. and C. = Convoy and cruising duties ; Ch. = Channel ; W.I. = West Indies ; A.O. = Admiralty Order ; N.A. = North America. ALDERNEY (sloop), 235 tons, 10 guns ; built at Saltash 1757. Services : C. and C. 17578 ; Blockade of Dunkirk 1759; C. and C. 1760; Capture of Belleisle 1761 ; Madagascar 1762; C. and C. 1763 ; C. and C. 1768-82. Sold 1783. TAMAR (sloop), 313 tons, 16 guns; built at Saltash 1758. Services: C. and C. 1759; Quiberon Bay 1760; Ch. 1761 ; Newfoundland 1762-3; Byron's voyage of circumnavigation (Capt. Pat. Mouat) 1764-6; Falkland Islands (Capt. Anth. Hunt) 1767-70; N.A. 1771-6 (Capt. Ed. Thornborough ; Lt. Jos. Peyton). Made fireship and name changed to Pluto by A.O. 23 Sept. 1777 ; Ch. 1778-80 ; Keppel's action of 27 July, 1778, off Ushant. Condemned 1781. DISPATCH (sloop), 382 tons, 18 guns; built at Falmouth 1804. Services: Ch. 1804-6; C. and C. 1807 ; W.I. 1808-11. Broken up 1811. AVON (sloop), 391 tons, 16 guns ; built at Falmouth 1805. Services : C. and C. 1805-6 ; W.I. 1807-11 ; undergoing repair 1812 ; Ireland 1813-4. Sunk (Capt. Hon. J. Arbuthnot) by United States man-of-war Wasp i Sept. 1814. CYNTHIA (sloop), 232 tons, 10 guns; built at Falmouth 1821. Services: Wrecked W.I. 6 June, 1827, while running as packet brig. ALADDIN (packet), 233 tons; built at Falmouth 1824. Services: Post Office steam packet, 100 h.p. Name subsequently changed to Jasper.