It was built to provide dense cheap housing just outside the wall of HM Dockyard Devonport for the thousands of civilian workmen.

[1] The development of housing was so rapid that HMS Hotspur, later renamed HMS Monmouth, was provided as a chapel ship for Roman Catholic services until the Roman Catholic Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer was built in 1901.

[3] His motive remains undetermined, although his online activity made multiple references to the incel subculture.

[4][5] An inquest jury found the 5 people were "unlawfully killed" due to a "catastrophic failure" by Devon and Cornwall Police.

[8] The Ministry of Defence said that it was "one of the largest peacetime evacuations since the second world war"[9] An emergency alert was sent to residents in Plymouth around 12pm on Friday 23 February advising more evacuations as the bomb disposal teams prepared to move the device to the Torpoint Ferry slipway to be disposed of at sea.