Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently...
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Dockyard Chatham is a maritime museum on part of the site of the former royal/naval dockyard at Chatham in Kent, South East England. Chatham Dockyard...
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developed around Chatham Dockyard and several army barracks, together with 19th-century forts which provided a defensive shield for the dockyard. The Corps...
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British Airways (redirect from Chatham Dockyard Union Flag)
Ayling, announced that all BA planes would adopt the tailfin design Chatham Dockyard Union Flag originally intended to be used only on the Concorde, based...
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Portsmouth was the first Royal Dockyard, dating from the late 15th century; it was followed by Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham and others. By the 18th century...
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Raid on the Medway (redirect from Battle of Chatham)
Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of...
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the Royal Navy have been named HMS Chatham after the port of Chatham, Kent, home of the Chatham Dockyard. HMS Chatham (1666) was a galliot captured in 1666...
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and the Chatham naval dockyard and its associated defences. The main towns in the conurbation are (from west to east): Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham...
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March 1851 HMS Vesuvius Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 18 May 1819 (Order transferred to Chatham Dockyard, reordered on 30 August 1828) Laid down:...
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Brunswick Chatham Township, Ontario, a former township Chatham, a community in Chatham-Kent, Ontario Chatham, Kent, a town Chatham Dockyard, frequently...
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(590-kilogram) desk was created by William Evenden, a skilled joiner at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford. The desk...
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Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich...
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including the building of five new Type 22 frigates. He also closed Chatham Dockyard and ended the mid-life modernisation of old frigates. He took through...
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dockyard; by 1758 the Chatham Lines of Defence were built. Over a mile long, they stretched across the neck of the dockyard peninsula, from Chatham Reach...
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ropes were twisted into ships' cables (i.e. ropes). The ropewalk at Chatham Dockyard (as part of the Ropery or Ropehouse) is still producing rope commercially...
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Brompton lines of defence to protect the southeastern approaches to Chatham Dockyard and the River Medway against a French invasion. Fort Amherst is now...
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10656837. S2CID 162270351. Harrison, Simon. "Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard". threedecks.org. S.Harrison. Retrieved 7 October 2018. Tomlinson,...
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much of its history; the Cinque Ports in the 10th–14th centuries and Chatham Dockyard in the 16th–20th centuries were of particular importance. France can...
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Company of Merchant Taylors Chatham Dockyard Historic Trust Chatham Dockyard Historic Society Royal Naval Association, Chatham TS Cornwallis (Medway Town...
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HMS Queenborough (1671), a yacht built at Chatham Dockyard in 1671. She was rebuilt at Sheerness Dockyard in 1718, and was sold on 11 July 1771....
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was an English Master Shipwright and Second Resident Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard. He protected his scale models and drawings of the King's Fleet during...
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HMS Hawke (1891) (category Ships built in Chatham)
HMS Hawke, launched in 1891 from Chatham Dockyard, was the seventh Royal Navy warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser. After...
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HMS Ocelot (S17) (category Ships built in Chatham)
complement was 68: 6 officers and 62 sailors. Ocelot was laid down by Chatham Dockyard on 17 November 1960, and launched on 5 May 1962. The boat was commissioned...
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deductions from seamen's pay, which were deposited in a chest held at Chatham Dockyard and disbursed upon proof of a sailor's disability. The fund ceased...
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Lines was in its own right a layer of defence to protect Chatham Dockyard from attack. Chatham was a principal manning port of the Royal Navy during the...
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HMS Una (category Ships built in Chatham)
British U-class submarine, of the second group of that class, built at Chatham Dockyard. She was laid down on 7 May 1940 and was commissioned on 27 September...
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Pembroke Dockyard Ordered: 30 December 1823 Laid down: October 1825 Launched: 2 April 1833 Fate: Burnt, 1899 HMS Waterloo Builder: Chatham Dockyard Ordered:...
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anchor either within the river, on Chatham Reach or Gillingham Reach, or beyond it, around The Nore. Chatham Dockyard had its disadvantages, however. The...
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Medway Maritime Hospital (redirect from Chatham Royal Naval Hospital)
in the early 1900s as a Royal Naval Hospital for naval personnel at Chatham Dockyard and the nearby Royal Naval Barracks. In 2005 an unidentified person...
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