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Walmer Castle is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII in Walmer, Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire , and defended the strategically important Downs anchorage off the English coast.
The RMS Walmer Castle was a Royal Mail Ship of the Union-Castle Line in service between London, England and Cape Town, South Africa between 1902 and 1930. She was the second of three ships by this name.
The Castle: 3 May 1970: Harrogate: ... ticket prices were set at 10s [5] —approximately £10 ($16 USD) in 2012. ... Virginia Beach Civic Center 6 March 1972
Walmer is a town in the district of Dover, Kent, in England. Located on the coast, the parish of Walmer is six miles (9.7 km) south-east of Sandwich, Kent. The town's coastline and castle are popular amongst tourists. It has a population of 6,693 (2001), increasing to 8,178 at the 2011 Census. [1]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Deal Castle retains most of its original 16th-century structure, including a tall keep with six semi-circular bastions, 86 feet (26 m) across, at the centre, flanked by a further six rounded bastions, the western of which served as a gatehouse, surrounded by a moat and a curtain wall. [69] The castle's bastion walls are 15 feet (4.6 m) thick. [70]
Walmer Castle, John Thorne, master, sailed from the Downs on 5 September 1846 and arrived at Port Jackson on 23 December 1846. She was carrying eleven cabin passengers, three passengers in intermediate, and ten passenger in steerage. Walmer Castle sailed from Plymouth on 12 September 1848 and arrived at Sydney on 30 December 1848. She was under ...
A Castle-class corvette was 252 feet (77 m) long with a beam of 36 feet 8 inches (11.18 m) and a draught of 13 feet 6 inches (4.11 m) at deep load. [ 2 ] [ note 1 ] The ships displaced 1,060 long tons (1,080 t) standard [ 2 ] and 1,580 long tons (1,610 t) deep load.