Swansea Marina of boats between the River Tawe system and the sea. Swansea Marina Swansea Marina is a marina located behind the Swansea barrage at the mouth of the River Tawe in Swansea, south Wales. Swansea Marina was first awarded blue flag status in June 2005 . There is a boat yard for building and servicing boats, and a few shops selling boating equipment. Boating organisations based at Swansea Marina include Swansea Yacht and Sub Aqua club and the Maiden Voyage, which owns a 72 ft ocean racing yacht. After many years of industrial decline in the Lower Swansea valley, the South
Swansea, California Swansea, California Swansea is a former settlement and unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. It is located south of New York Butte, at an elevation of . Swansea was a boomtown located on the eastern shore of Owens Lake. Spawned by the success of the silver mining operations in the nearby Cerro Gordo Mines in the late 1860s, Swansea became a hub for smelting the ore and transporting the resulting ingots to Los Angeles, over 200 miles away. The smelter operated from 1869 to 1874. Swansea was named after the mining town Swansea in south Wales, from which many experienced