Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a town in Hampshire on the south coast of England, whose main source of employment is the Naval dockyard. There is a Royal Marines barracks nearby, as it is home to the second of the four Royal Marines divisions (the others are at Chatham, Plymouth and Woolwich. The main Naval anchorage nearby is Spithead, which was the scene of the first of the two great mutinies in 1797.
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