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Dartmouth: Britannia Royal Naval College
Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, England.
Dartmouth
England, United Kingdom
Dartmouth, town (parish), South Hams district, administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England. It lies along the English Channel and the west bank of the River Dart estuary.
Dartmouth is a yachting centre and has boatbuilding, light engineering, and pottery industries. The castle (1481) guarded the entrance to the estuary, from which Richard I’s Crusaders set sail in 1190. In 1944 detachments of Allied troops sailed from there to the Normandy beaches in France. The Britannia Royal Naval College is situated above the harbour. Pop. (2001) 5,512; (2011) 5,605.
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