History of Workington established on the north bank of the mouth of the River Derwent, near present-day Siddick Pond and Northside. Another fort or watchtower would have been on How Michael to the south side of the river, near present-day Chapel Bank. In 122, the Romans begin building Hadrian's Wall from Bowness on the Solway Firth to Wallsend on the North Sea. The discovery of a Roman fort around the parish church in Moresby to the south, and fortifications to the north at Risehow (Flimby), Maryport and Crosscannonby support the argument that the coastal wall extended down the whole Solway coast and formed
USS S-17 (SS-122) Casco Bay, Maine. Decommissioned on 4 October 1944, "S-17" was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 November of that year and was intentionally sunk on 5 April 1945. A fictional USS S-17 appears in Edward L. Beach's 1955 novel "Run Silent, Run Deep". USS S-17 (SS-122) USS "S-17" (SS-122) was a second-group (S-3 or "Government") "S"-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 19 March 1918 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was launched on 22 May 1920 sponsored by Mrs. Raymond G. Thomas, and commissioned on 1 March