384 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
In Stonehouse Pool, where there is anchorage of 24 to 36 feet, 
on mud, for a small number of ships. 
In Barnpool, where there is 78 feet of water, on a hard bottom, 
with moorings close under Mount Edgcumbe; a lovely situation, 
used chiefly for yachts, and occasionally for H.M. ships. 
In the channel between Drake’s Island and the mainland, where 
there is very good anchorage in 36 to 108 feet of water, on mud, 
used largely by yachts, some of which are of considerable size, by 
the beautiful little training-brigs of H.M. service, and by some 
merchant ships on their way in or out of other parts of the 
harbour. 
In Cattewater, a very ancient anchorage within the harbour, 
where ships can lie at anchor with the greatest safety in 13 to 48 
feet of water, on mud. Off Turnchapel there is 30 to 48 feet of 
water, which is at present but little utilized considering its value. 
The favourable situations for ships to lie alongside the land to 
deliver their cargoes are very numerous, and it would be but 
tedious to mention them all, as they are well known. The best 
parts of the harbour for this purpose are— 
The eastern shores of Hamoaze, occupied by the Government 
for the Dockyard, and therefore not available for other purposes. 
The Tamar, a navigable river as far as the Weir Head, about 
twenty miles, with many wharves for loading and discharging 
cargoes along its banks, and the banks of the navigable portion of 
its tributaries, all forming a part of the trade of the harbour of 
Plymouth. 
The Great Western Docks, where there are very good floating- 
docks for the discharge and shipment of cargoes, in eighteen to 
twenty-two feet of water, the trade carried on within them being very 
large, and increasing yearly as the trade of the harbour increases. 
The Great Western Dock Company, which is in effect the Great 
Western Railway Company, is in possession of the whole of Mill- 
bay; and outside the docks it has the pier, the pontoon, and the 
jetty, alongside of which ships can lie in eighteen to twenty-four 
feet of water, the pier and the pontoon being used by the many 
steamers that regularly trade here. The area of the docks is 
thirteen acres, and of the outer harbour thirty-five acres. The 
Great Western Railway Company will probably make very con- 
siderable improvements in their harbour for the accommodation of 
shipping, especially for steamers of large size. 
