St Michael's Mount time in Britain in the 1930s, when he had proposed an alliance with Nazi Germany, General von Ribbentrop frequently visited Cornwall. In 1954, Francis Cecil St Aubyn, 3rd Baron St Levan gave most of St Michael's Mount to the National Trust, together with a large endowment fund. The St Aubyn family retained a 999-year lease to inhabit the castle and a licence to manage the public viewing of its historic rooms. This is managed in conjunction with the National Trust. The chapel of St Michael, a fifteenth-century building, has an embattled tower, one angle of which is a small turret,
NOAAS Mount Mitchell (S 222) commissioned into the Coast and Geodetic Survey in March 1968 as USC&GS "Mount Mitchell" (MSS 22). When the Survey merged with other organizations to form NOAA in 1970, she became part of the NOAA fleet as NOAAS "Mount Mitchell" (S 222). She is the sister ship of and , which are both still in service with NOAA. "Mount Mitchell" operated as a multipurpose vessel. She had an oceanographic laboratory, several echosounders, and an oceanographic winch. She also had a hydroplot data-processing system, as did two of her survey launches. "Mount Mitchell" conducted hydrographic surveys on the United States East Coast