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2. Portsmouth, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   Portsmouth Island is a tidal island connected, under most conditions, to the northern end of the North Core Banks, across Ocracoke Inlet from the village of Ocracoke. The town lies in Carteret County , was established in 1753 by the North Carolina Colonial Assembly, and abandoned in 1971.

3. Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point - Wikipedia

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   The terminal lies between the small town of Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, and the Cape Fear River a few miles upstream of Fort Johnston (North Carolina) and the small city of Southport, North Carolina.

4. Ship graveyard - Wikipedia

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   A ship graveyard, ship cemetery or breaking yard is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are broken (to recycle their metal and remove dangerous materials like asbestos ) are also known as ...

5. List of Royal Navy shore establishments - Wikipedia

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   Defence Diving School (Horsea Island, Portsmouth) ... Royal Navy Aircraft Yards. RNAY Wroughton, Aircraft storage and maintenance unit, Wroughton, Swindon, England;

6. Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad - Wikipedia

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   On December 12 of the same year an eastbound engine of the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad pulling 3 passenger cars and 9 lumber cars loaded with cotton struck an upturned end of a split metal rail 2 miles west of the Nottoway River near the present day village of Handsom in Southampton County. The resulting derailment killed a Miss Blow and a ...

7. Royal Navy Dockyard - Wikipedia

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   Experimental yard for new technology, early nineteenth century. Closed 1869. (The adjacent victualling yard, which supplied the Thames and Medway yards, remained open for a further 98 years.) Chatham Dockyard (1567) The leading Royal Dockyard during the 16th–17th centuries, when the Fleet was principally based in and around the River Medway. [22]

8. Portsmouth neighbors urge city to act on metal yard. Mayor ...

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   "The volume and excessive nature of activity was definitely dangerous for kids and families who live there," Jones Ave. resident Mike McGovern says.

9. Cape Lookout National Seashore - Wikipedia

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   Cape Lookout National Seashore preserves a 56-mile (90-km) long section of the Southern Outer Banks, or Crystal Coast, of North Carolina, United States, running from Ocracoke Inlet on the northeast to Beaufort Inlet on the southwest.