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Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard was the only Royal Navy base on Lake Ontario, countering the American naval base at nearby Sackets Harbor, New York during the War of 1812. During the war, British naval operations on the Lake Ontario were centered at Point Frederick, at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Cataraqui Rivers at Lake Ontario. In ...
Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard, Kingston, Canada. The RN dockyard operated at Point Frederick from 1789 to 1853; the site was expanded during the War of 1812. It is now closed, this yard was near where the Royal Military College of Canada is now situated. Navy Island Royal Naval Shipyard on Navy Island near Niagara Falls, Ontario (1763–1813 ...
English: The Commodore's house in the Royal Navy yard wherein were built the ships used on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. A partly completed ship is visible. A partly completed ship is visible.
HMS Wolfe (later HMS Montreal, originally HMS Sir George Prevost) was a 20-gun sloop-of-war, launched at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard at Kingston, Upper Canada, on 22 April 1813. She served in the British naval squadron in several engagements on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812.
Kingston Shipyards was a Canadian shipbuilder and ship repair company that operated from 1910 to 1968. [1] The facility was located on the Kingston waterfront property known as Mississauga Point, which is the now the site of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston .
It was the first time Wyand, a Navy veteran who lived and worked at the shipyard in the late 1980s, learned he may have been exposed to radium-226 and strontium-90 — radionuclides that build up ...
BREMERTON — The Navy is seeking information about properties it could possibly lease near Bremerton to support military operations, as Puget Sound Naval Shipyard continues to plan for upgrades ...
The shipyards were called for by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1793 [1] and operated from 1798. The shipyards were situated on Humber Bay, near the western edge of the settlement (east of the ruins of Fort Rouille) and located south of Front Street on the shores of Lake Ontario west of Bay Street (today this is where the rail tracks south of Union Station are located).