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Devonport Naval Heritage Centre, formerly known as the Plymouth Naval Base Museum is a maritime museum in Plymouth, Devon. It is housed in a number of historic buildings within the South Yard of HM Naval Base, Devonport (one of the three main bases of the Royal Navy). Its mission statement is "To present the story of support to the Royal Navy ...
The largest naval base in Western Europe, [1] HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth, England. The base began as a Royal Navy Dockyard in the late 17th century, designed and built on open ground by Edmund Dummer as an integrated facility for the repair and maintenance of warships, centred on his pioneering ...
The Historic 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 covered 400 acres (1.6 km 2) and was one of the Royal Navy 's main facilities for several hundred years until it was closed in 1984. After closure the dockyard was divided into three ...
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, founded 1496, still in service as a Naval Base. Royal Navy Dockyards (more usually termed Royal Dockyards) were state-owned harbour facilities where ships of the Royal Navy were built, based, repaired and refitted. Until the mid-19th century the Royal Dockyards were the largest industrial complexes in Britain.
Devonport (/ ˈdɛvənpɔːrt / DEV-ən-port), [1] formerly named Plymouth Dock or just Dock, [2] is a district of Plymouth in the English county of Devon, although it was, at one time, the more important settlement. It became a county borough in 1889. Devonport was originally one of the "Three Towns" (along with Plymouth and East Stonehouse ...
The Royal William Victualling Yard in Stonehouse, a suburb of Plymouth, England, was the major victualling depot of the Royal Navy and an important adjunct of Devonport Dockyard. It was designed by the architect Sir John Rennie and was named after King William IV. [1] It was built between 1826 and 1835 and occupies a site of approximately 16 ...
The base headquarters building. Canterbury berthed at the base. Devonport Naval Base is the home of the Royal New Zealand Navy, located at Devonport, New Zealand on Auckland 's North Shore. It is currently the only base of the navy that operates ships, and has been in use as a navy base since 1841. [1] The base consists of HMNZS Philomel (the ...
773.0 mm 30.4 in. Devonport (/ ˈdɛvənpɔːrt / DEV-ən-port; [ 3 ] pirinilaplu / palawa kani: limilinaturi) [ 4 ] is a port city situated at the mouth of the Mersey River on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. Positioned 47 kilometres (29 mi) east of Burnie and 98 kilometres (61 mi) north of Launceston, its harbour manages over half ...