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23 unusual facts about Devonport


Auckland Marathon

The course begins in the seaside suburb of Devonport on the North Shore and travels through Takapuna and Northcote before crossing the Harbour Bridge and heading toward the finish at Victoria Park.

Devonport Naval Base

Shore based support is predominantly based at the Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, with a long and varied list of services and facilities, including facilities for training, sports, and cultural activities, dry dock, as well as engineering and flight support and the Navy Hospital (and Hyperbaric Unit).

Devonport, Tasmania

Devonport has the terminal for the Spirit of Tasmania ferries – Spirit I and II travel the 11 hours to Melbourne, Victoria.

Duders Hill

Duders Hill (also Takamaiiwaho) was a 20 metre high scoria mound located on the Devonport coast, on the lower south-east slopes of Mount Victoria, in the Auckland Volcanic Field.

Forts in Cornwall

Many Napoleonic forts were built during the Napoleonic War in South East Cornwall to protect Plymouth Sound and Plymouth's docks in Devonport, Devon from attack: some are still in use today by the Ministry of Defence.

Francis Foster Barham

After a preliminary training in the grammar school of Penzance, he studied under one of his brothers near Epping Forest, and was then articled for five years (1826–31) to a solicitor at Devonport.

Henry Perlee Parker

The son of Robert Parker, of Plymouth Dock, a teacher of marine and mechanical drawing, was born at Devonport on 15 March 1795.

HMNZS Philomel

Today Philomel is a sprawling land establishment located at Devonport, New Zealand.

Invicta Bus Services

In July 1987 Invicta purchased Morse's Bus Service in Devonport, Tasmania.

James Polkinghorne

This match, the purse for which was £200 a side for the best of three back falls, took place at Tamar Green, Morice Town, near Devonport, on 23 October 1826, in the presence of upwards of 12,000 spectators.

The match took place at Devonport, and ten thousand people are said to have attended.

Lowland Mounted Brigade

In late September 1915, the brigade (just two regiments strong, Ayrshire Yeomanry and Lanarkshire Yeomanry) left Fife for Devonport.

Lyons, Australian Capital Territory

The Deakin acid Volcanics can be observed in cuttings along Tuggeranong Parkway, and Devonport Street.

Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin

By 2008 it was one of only three remaining buildings in New Zealand originally purpose-designed as cinemas, with the Princess Theatre in Gore, New Zealand (1913) and the Victoria Theatre in Devonport, Auckland (1912).

Philip Richard Morris

Philip Richard Morris (Devonport 4 December 1836 – 22 April 1902, 92 Clifton Hill, Maida Vale, London) was an English painter of genre and maritime scenes (particularly allegorical ones of rural life), Holman Hunt-influenced religious paintings and (later in his career) portraits.

Richard Wynyard

Living in Devonport, Wynyard was part of the North Shore Rugby Club and won selection for Auckland when aged only 20.

The Electric Confectionaires

Sheehan, Smith and Gunn hail from Devonport and first met in primary school after Gunn emigrated from Scotland.

Thomas Sewell Robins

Born in Devonport, Devon, he was an early member of the New Water-Colour Society and the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours.

Victor Daley

He was born at the Navan, County Armagh, Ireland, and was educated at the Christian Brothers at Devonport in England.

William Lankham

William Lankham was born 4 December 1861 in Auckland and died 2 December 1886 in Devonport.

William Pullen

Pullen was born in Devonport, Devon, the son of Royal Navy Lieutenant William Pullen and Amelia Mary Haswell.

William Samuel Furneaux

William Samuel Furneaux (2 June 1855, Devonport – 1940) was a British science teacher and nature writer.

William Wynyard

Living in Devonport, Wynyard was part of the North Shore Rugby Club.


Arthur Francis Turner

He entered the navy in 1931, completing a four year course at the Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham, Devonport.

Arthur James F. Bond

His father, Richard Bond was the Vicar of St James' Church, Devonport and the family lived in the large vicarage adjacent.

Boat Harbour Beach, Tasmania

Boat Harbour Beach, nestled between a dramatic hinterland and azure waters is just 15 minutes from Burnie/Wynyard airport, 45 minutes from the Spirit of Tasmania ferry terminal and 55 minutes from the airport in Devonport, each providing easy daily connections to Melbourne and beyond.

Crawshays RFC

In 1922 Captain Geoffrey Crawshay was invited by the Engineer Commander of Devonport Services, SF Cooper, to bring a team of Welsh rugby union players to play Devonport Services RFC.

Devonport Airport

Devonport and Burnie Councils have both been vying for the attention of Virgin Australia.

Eric John Godley

Born in the Auckland suburb of Devonport to parents Rupert and Louise E. Godley, Godley grew up in Auckland and did his BSc at MSc at Auckland University College, followed by service in World War II and a PhD at Cambridge in cytology and genetics under Ronald Fisher.

Frederick Vosper

Few other details of his early life are available, but in 1885 he was at Devonport serving with the Royal Navy on the training ship Lion.

HMNB Devonport

Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Devonport (formerly HMS Drake), is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth).

John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton

In November 1866 a bronze statue of Colborne sculpted by George Adams and financed by public donations was erected at Mount Wise at Devonport: it was moved to Seaton Barracks in Crownhill in the early 1960s and then to Peninsula Barracks in Winchester in the 1990s.

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

In 1851 he was appointed Master of the Rolls, and continued to sit for Devonport till the general election in 1852, when he was defeated.

Mersey Community Hospital

The Mersey Hospital, at Latrobe near Devonport in Tasmania is a campus of the North West Regional Hospital, the main healthcare facility for the North Western region of Tasmania, Australia.

Narrow Neck, New Zealand

Until the mid-19th century, Devonport was connected with the rest of the North Shore by a causeway between Ngataringa Bay and the Hauraki Gulf.

Royal Navy surface fleet

At present it consists of two flotillas based at Portsmouth and Devonport, both on the south coast of England, and a flotilla based at the Clyde Naval Base at Faslane in Scotland.

Serco Denholm

However, Marine Services was put out to commercial tender by the Ministry of Defence Warship Support Agency (now part of the Defence Equipment and Support organisation) and since 1996 tugs, lifting craft, various tenders and management of HMNB Devonport, Portsmouth and Clyde have been operated and provided by Serco Denholm.

Tamar Valley Line

The line from St Budeaux to Bere Alston was opened for passenger traffic on 2 June 1890 by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PDSWJ) as part of their line from Lydford to Devonport, which in effect was an extension of the London and South Western Railway's main line from London Waterloo station to Lydford, enabling the LSWR to reach Plymouth independently of the Great Western Railway.

Tasair

Night freight operations were also conducted from Hobart to Essendon via Devonport, returning to Hobart via Launceston.

The Flea

The Flea 88.2, a radio station based in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand

Torpoint Ferry

A ferry route between Torpoint and Plymouth Dock (now called Devonport) was created by an Act of Parliament in 1790 and the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe began to run ferries the following year.

Vauxhall, Auckland

Vauxhall was a constituent suburb of the Borough of Devonport until 1989, when the Borough disappeared in local body reorganisation and became part of the newly created North Shore City.

Woodlands Fort

Woodland Fort is one of the Palmerston Forts that form Plymouth's North Eastern defences, whose purpose was to defend the Royal Dockyard at Devonport from the possibility of a French attack, under the leadership of Napoleon III.

Wynyard, Tasmania

Devonport, the southern terminus of the Spirit of Tasmania ferry to the mainland, is 40 minutes east by car.