Author : Clive Holden
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445619113
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks have changed and developed over the last century.
Author : David T. Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
The history of Chatham Dockyard has been an eventful one. It owes its inception to King Henry VIII who, in 1547, selected the River Medway at Gillingham to be his main fleet anchorage. As more ships were added to the royal fleet the work of the dockyard was increased, until it was deemed necessary to build a small castle to protect the yard and anchorage from attack. In the wars and conflicts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Chatham Dockyard would be called upon again to play its part in maintaining an effective battle fleet. David T. Hughes has compiled a thoughtful and insightful volume of photographs and ephemera on the Chatham Naval Dockyard and Barracks, looking at it from its early days of existence until its role in more recent years, from the First and Second World Wars to the Falklands.
Author : Philip MacDougall
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0752487760
Founded in 1570, Chatham Dockyard quickly became one of the most important naval yards for the repair and building of warships, maintaining a pre-eminent position for the next 400 years. Located on the River Medway, in all, the yard was responsible for the construction of over 500 warships, these ranging from simple naval pinnaces through to first-rates that fought at Trafalgar, and concluding with the hunter-killer submarines of the nuclear age. In this detailed new history of the yard from experienced local and maritime author Philip MacDougall, particular attention is given to the final two hundred years of the yard’s history, the artisans and labourers who worked there and the changing methods used in the construction of some of the finest warships to enter naval service. Coinciding with the dockyard’s seeking status as a World Heritage site, this fascinating history places Chatham firmly in its overall historical context.
Author : Sir Neil Cossons
Publisher : Historic England
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2021-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781800859494
Nowhere in the world is it possible to see such an intact naval dockyard for the building and maintenance of the ships of the sailing navy as at Chatham. This book, edited by Neil Cossons, Jonathan Coad, Andrew Lambert, Paul Hudson and Paul Jardine - all experts in their fields - brings together their combined knowledge to tell the dockyard's history, from Elizabethan origins to fleet base and shipbuilding yard, from sail to steel to submarines. They set out the extraordinary scale of the legacy and the challenges of the future once the yard closed in the 1980s. This is a story of the creation of the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust and the management of an outstanding historic asset for the benefit of the public. Profusely illustrated, it is the first authoritative account of how Chatham's dockyard was saved for the nation and managed for nearly forty years to exemplary standards.
Author : Clive Holden
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445674238
Explore Chatham's military heritage, from Roman times to the present day, in this illustrated guide.
Author : Peter Kendall
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Chatham (Kent, England)
ISBN : 9781848020986
The dockyards at Chatham, on the River Medway in Kent, is a site of international military significance. This is the story of the defences that protected the dockyard and the key route to London, from substantial lines of earthen ramparts and ditches to major citadels and innovative forts.
Author : Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1476689717
This book details British fortifications used from the Tudor period beginning in 1485 through the end of World War II in 1945. With the advent of firearms, the Tudor period indeed opened a new chapter in the histories of Britain, fortification and warfare. By 1500 AD, Britain and Europe at large entered a new phase, marked by the foundation of colonial empires and a broadened sphere of influence and rule. During the following centuries, British sailors, ruthless adventurers, fighting men, and greedy merchants laid foundations to fortify the most widespread and most prosperous colonial Empire the world had ever seen. This text focuses on British coastal fortifications and on combinations of fortresses used for more general strategic purposes. Featured structures have protected points of vital importance, such as capital cities, military depots, ports, harbors and dockyards at essential locations in Britain and throughout the British Empire.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Admiralty
Publisher :
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 1873
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