Author : Clive Holden
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,35 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 : 18,50 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 : 41,8 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 : Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust
Publisher :
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Clive Holden
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,92 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 : Philip MacDougall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445627361
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Chatham has changed and developed over the last century.
Author : J. G. Coad
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Sir Neil Cossons
Publisher : Historic England
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,49 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 : David Hughes
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Chatham Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 198?
Category :
ISBN :
