Talk:Hamoaze

Pronunciation
It would be very helpful if you included a guide to the pronunciation of these weird words. How does one pronounce Hamoaze? How in 1790? [HAM-ooze]?


 * I added an IPA pronunciation guide. I've tried to render the pronunciations I've found online, which seem closer to [HAM-owes] than [HAM-ooze].  If any locals can correct my probable mangling of the name, please do! &mdash;Ryan McDaniel 17:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Also, I have no clue how it used to be pronounced. &mdash;Ryan McDaniel 17:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

hope its realised that this is generally thought to be an EnglishOED== - not a Cornish word - being Ham - settlement - next to the Ooze - muddy estuary. its also mentioned in Richard Carew's survey of Cornwall as it was on his doorstep. There is a possibility it is British as River Ouse could be from the Usk / Exe Celtic root

Who's bigger than who?
"The presence of large numbers of small watercraft are a challenge and hazard to the warships..." I would think that the warships are a rather bigger hazard to the small craft.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  16:35, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

HMS Eagle
Is it of any interest to include here that the Royal Navy's largest aircraft carrier, the 50,000 ton displacement HMS Eagle, was moored in the Hamoaze after being decommissioned in 1972, where she was gradually stripped and acted as a source of spare parts for HMS Ark Royal, until finally being towed away for scrapping in 1978. Andywebby (talk) 23:03, 23 November 2011 (UTC)