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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established in Medway. Although it is called Chatham dockyard, two-thirds of the dockyard lie within Gillingham. The dockyard was closed in 1984, with the loss of...
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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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paid off in May 1699. She would be rebuilt at Chatham in 1699. She was ordered rebuilt at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Daniel...
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a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750...
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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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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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II she was converted to the "Head Quarters Ship" HQS Wellington at Chatham Dockyard and moored at Victoria Embankment, London. Until 2023 she was the floating...
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built between 1957 and 1978 by four shipyards: Cammell Laird (4), Chatham Dockyard (6), Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (11) and Vickers-Armstrongs...
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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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Woolwich Dockyard as Master Shipwright, and from there to Chatham Dockyard on 17 June 1752 and subsequently on 15 March 1753 to Deptford Dockyard, where...
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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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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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