St Michael's Mount in 1940

A glimpse of St Michael's Mount in 1940 from Marazion and from Newlyn is followed by footage of HMS Warspite grounded and wrecked off Prussia Cove in 1947 before the video ends with original colour footage of the Mount in 1953.
HMS Warspite, launched at Devonport in 1913, had survived Jutland in WW1, Narvik, Calabria, Taranto, Cape Matapan, Crete, the Indian Ocean, the invasions of Sicily, Italy and Normandy (where she was the first ship to open fire on D-Day), and the Battle of the Scheldt in WW2, but succumbed to a gale in Mount's Bay on 23rd April whilst under tow on her way to be scrapped. The Penlee lifeboat heroically rescued the skeleton crew of 7 on 24th April. After salvage failed, she was moved closer to St Michael's Mount and broken up in situ.
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Beautiful! Wish I could visit the home of some of my ancestors.

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Precioso video