Editing Mahón (section)

====The Royal Navy====
{{Main|Port Mahon Dockyard}}
A small but important [[Royal Navy Dockyard]] was established by the British on the north side of the harbour, opposite the town, in 1715.<ref name=Coad2013>{{cite book|last1=Coad|first1=Jonathan|title=Support for the Fleet: Architecture and Engineering of the Royal Navy's Bases, 1700–1914|date=2013|publisher=English Heritage|location=Swindon}}</ref> It served as the Royal Navy's principal Mediterranean base for much of the 18th century, and remains in use today as a [[Spanish Navy|Spanish Naval]] station. Several Dockyard buildings, dating from the 1760s, can still be seen on Illa Pinto (formerly known as Saffron Island) including a Naval Storehouse with clock tower.  There recently have been moves to establish a maritime museum here.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://retedigital.com/wp-content/themes/rete/pdfs/portus/Portus_23/la_estación_naval_de_port.pdf|title=Information booklet (bilingual Spanish/English)}}</ref> The island has a distinctive octagonal shape, formed when wharves were constructed around it in the 1760s to enable several warships to be [[Careening|careened]] there all at once.

The ruins of a former [[Royal Naval Hospital]], founded in 1711, stand on another nearby island ([[Illa del Rei]]). They recently have been restored.<ref name=Coad2013 /> Hauser & Wirth has established a gallery on the island. <ref>��Minder, Raphael; Reyburn, Scott (26 July 2021). "Art Meets Luxury Lifestyle at a Gallery's Sunny New Location". New York Times. Vol. 170, no. 59131. p. C6. ISSN 0362-4331</ref>

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File:S'Arsenal, illa des Gegants o d'en Pintot (Maó).JPG|Naval storehouse and [[careening]] wharf on Illa Pinto
File:IllaDelRei.jpg|The ruined Naval Hospital in 2008
File:Illa del Rei, Mao 2011.jpg|and in 2011, following restoration
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