Admiralty House, a nationally registered historic site, is located in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. It was built in 1914 for the British Admiralty as a World War I communications post. It now houses a museum, with exhibits on the history of Mount Pearl, Guglielmo Marconi and wireless communications, the wreck of SS Florizel, and HMS Calypso (later HMS Briton), a training ship for the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve before and during World War I.
Famous quotes containing the words mount and/or pearl:
“Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
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