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Signage on Boathouse 4. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is an area of HM Naval Base Portsmouth which is open to the public; it contains several historic buildings and ships. It is managed by the National Museum of the Royal Navy as an umbrella organization representing five charities: the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, the Mary Rose Trust ...
The Naval Base Commander (NBC) since June 2022 is Commodore John Voyce. The harbour is under the control of the King's Harbour Master (KHM), who is the regulatory authority of the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth, an area of approximately 50 square miles (130 km 2) that encompasses Portsmouth Harbour and the Eastern Solent.
The museum was founded in 1911. Known originally as the Dockyard Museum, it was conceived by Mr. Mark Edwin Pescott-Frost, then secretary to the Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth. [2] With a passion for naval history he spearheaded a project to save items for future generations, eventually leading to the opening of a new museum.
The walls of Portsmouth and the dockyard in 1773. The dockyard is to the north of the town and separated from it by the mill pond. To the East of the town is the Little Morass, an area of marshland. The fortifications of Portsmouth are extensive due to its strategic position on the English Channel and role as home to the Royal Navy.
Victory Gate and Dockyard Wall H.M. Naval Base, City of Portsmouth: Gate: 1704-1712: 13 August 1999 1244581 ... H.M. Naval Base, City of Portsmouth: Water Tower:
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Immediately before the war, over 25 per cent of Portsmouth's male working-age population served in the army or the navy and many more were employed in the dockyard. Around 6,000 Portsmouth residents were killed in the war, out of a population of around 200,000 and a workforce of around 85,000 as of the 1911 census.
The forts were intended to prevent a hostile force landing further along the coast, approaching Portsmouth from the mainland, taking the tactical high ground to the north of the dockyard. As such, the forts are designed so that all of their main weapons face inland, protecting Portsmouth from the rest of England. Fort Wallington