Devonport Tower (3)

 The small "mast",  seen in yesterday's post, is in fact, a 40 metre "sculpture", erected in 1998 to commemorate the former site of the Admiralty's (semaphore) signalling station, at Mount Wise.

The map shows the 30 or so Semaphore Stations that linked the fleet in Plymouth with their lordships at the Admiralty in London.

This is the view forward from the Semaphore Station and there is an equally all embracing view looking back up the River Tamar toward the Dockyard, so communicating with ships entering, leaving or lying at anchor in the Hamoaze, as this stretch of the river is called, was quite efficient by semaphore.