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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    Greenock HMS Asgard (P458) HMS Assurance (P462) HMS Astarte (P461) Chatham Dockyard HMS Adept (P412) United Kingdom portal List of ship classes of the...
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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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    Charities, ISBN 0-905418-76-X The Historic Dockyard (2014), "Building Slips", The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, archived from the original on 6 November...
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    Nelson's Dockyard is a cultural heritage site and marina in English Harbour, located in Saint Paul Parish on the Caribbean island of Antigua, in Antigua...
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    Shipyard (redirect from Dockyard)
    its time, was built there in 1769. Royal Naval Dockyards in the UK (including Woolwich, Deptford, Chatham, Portsmouth and Devonport), Gibraltar, Bombay...
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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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    Company of Merchant Taylors Chatham Dockyard Historic Trust Chatham Dockyard Historic Society Royal Naval Association, Chatham TS Cornwallis (Medway Town...
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    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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    of open spaces in the Medway Towns, connecting Chatham, Gillingham, Brompton and the Historic Dockyard. The long military history of the towns has dominated...
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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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    decommissioning she was preserved as a museum ship and currently resides at Chatham Historic Dockyard. Cavalier was one of 96 War Emergency Programme destroyers ordered...
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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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    while laid up in ordinary at Chatham Dockyard, but was raised in 1704 for rebuilding. She was relaunched from Chatham on 2 August 1710 as a 90-gun second...
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  • master-shipwright at Chatham Dockyard Peter Pett (shipwright, died 1589) (?–1589), English master-shipwright at Deptford Dockyard Sir Peter Pett (lawyer)...
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