Dockyard Collection

Trial of Anchors at the Royal Dockyard, Sheerness, July 1852
Engraving of a trial of various anchor designs, held at the Royal Dockyard Sheerness, from the Illustrated London News, 17th July 1852

Dockyard Workers on board HMS Coventry, Second World War
Photograph showing dockyard workers, including a rivetters boy working with a portable forge, refitting HMS Coventry during the Second World War, 1940

Valletta / Malta / Yacht
View into the Dockyard Creek in the Grand Harbour showing some of the luxury sailing (and powered) craft moored there

Valletta, Malta - HMS Egmont and Dockyard Creek. Date: 1923

HMS Bonaventure - an Astraea-Class second-class cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Bonaventure, an Astraea-Class second-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, ordered as part of the eight-ship Astraea class under the Naval Defence Act of 1889

H. M.s Neptune ready to be lauched 1909
H.M.S Neptune, the first of the Royal Navy super-Dreadnought battleships, photograph showing her in stocks ready for launching at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard

Deptford Dockyard
The naval dockyard at Deptford, with Greenwich in the distance. Our Picture Library is out of sight, to the right of the picture. Date: 1793

HMS Shannon, view of the armoured cruiser, taken from the fighting top, shows the deck and some of the chief guns. Built in Chatham Dockyard, England, fro the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s

The Hard and Entrance to the Dockyard - Portsea Island, Hampshire Date: circa 1910s

Street scene outside the Dockyard Gates, Chatham, Kent. Date: circa 1910

Boer Prisoners of War landing at Bermuda
Boer Prisoners of War landing at the British Naval base on the Island of Bermuda in the Western Atlantic. During the last phase of the Boer War (1901-1902)

HMS Encounter, 2nd class protected cruiser, Challenger class
Royal Navy - HMS Encounter, a 2nd-class protected cruiser of the Challenger class, operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), as HMAS Encounter

HMAS Yarra - River-Class Torpedo Destroyer
Royal Australian Navy - HMAS Yarra / HMS Yarra, a River-Class Torpedo Destroyer, making way at speed, on the River Clyde during manufacturers trials in 1910. Yarra was built by William Denny & Bros

Honolulu dockyard, Hawaii, early 1900s

WW2 - Rosyth Dockyard with HMS George V and HMS Cossack in dock Date: 1941

HMS Diomede - Danae-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. Constructed too late to take part in World War I, she served on the China Station, Pacific waters

Rosyth Royal Naval Dockyard - Fife, Scotland - panoramic view showing the Power Station and Industrial Chimney with multiple clock faces

Walney Bridge Barrow in Furness Edwardian period

HMS Swiftsure Devonport Dockyard Victorian period

HMS Swiftsure Devonport Dockyard

HMS Temeraire, Keyham, Devonport Dockyard

HMS Pembroke, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham Dockyard, Kent Date: circa 1900s

Jack's Visit to Greenwich II - the Anson Room, model of Portsmouth Dockyard extension, something like a chest, an old friend, a queer vessel

Launch of HMS Immortalite at Chatham Dockyard, Kent
The Launch of HMS Immortalite at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, 7 June 1887 Date: 1887

Launch of HMS Trafalgar at Woolwich, 21 June 1841
The Launch of HMS Trafalgar at Woolwich Dockyard, 21 June 1841 Date: 1841

HMS Seagull, minesweeper
HMS Seagull was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat, converted to be a minesweeper. She was built at Chatham Dockyard from 1888-1891

Queen Victoria naming the ship Royal Albert at Woolwich Dockyard in London. Date: 1854

Scene in Woolwich Arsenal, London showing an armstrong gun being made. This gun was introduced into the British Army in 1859

Dockyard in Hong Kong, c. 1930 s
Dockyard in Hong Kong, c.1930 s

British Royal Navy dockyard, Kowloon Hong Kong
Vintage c.1920s photograph: British Royal Navy dockyard, Kowloon Hong Kong

c. 1880s Japan - naval dockyard, Nagasaki
c.1880s Japan - naval dockyard, Nagasaki

c. 1880s - dockyard scene, probably London, with cranes
c.1880s - dockyard scene, probably London, with cranes

The old Arctic exploring ship, HMS Resolute, broken up at Chatham Dockyard. Two sailors contemplate the wreck. Date: 1879

Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, in what is now the London Borough of Lewisham

Article in The Illustrated London News reporting on the 1933 visit of the Emir of Katsina to Britain. Top picture shows the Emir

Ship construction in a British dockyard, WW1
Ship construction in a British dockyard, First World War. 1914-1918

Admiralty Office, Dock Yard, Storehouse, Amsterdam
Admiralty Office, Dock Yard and Storehouse, Amsterdam, Netherlands. circa 1788

Superman on the Stump - George Bernard Shaw 1910
Front cover of The Graphic, showing George Bernard Shaw taking part in a lively electioneering campaign, in Portsmouth. Date: 1910

Launch of HMS Waterloo at Chatham 1833
Launch of His Majestys ship, HMS Waterloo at Chatham in 1833. HMS Waterloo was a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Date: 10 June 1833

Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Date: 1890s

At the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, artillery horses are shipped to the Crimea Date: 1855

H M Dockyard, Bermuda - A Floating Dock
H M Dockyard, Hamilton Bermuda - A Floating Dock, containing the HMS Psyche. Date: circa 1908

Floating H. M.s Sultan out of dock 1870
Launch of H.M.S Sultan of Her Majestys ship Sultan, at Chatham Dockyard with crowds watching, most powerful ironclad afloat (at the time). Date: 1870

Floating dock, Deptford 1820
Floating dock, Deptford, London. Date: 1820

H. M.s Marlborough, training college for Naval Engineer
H.M.S Marlborough, the new training college for Naval Engineer for students at Portsmouth. Date: 1877

PORTSMOUTH / ROYAL YACHT
Portsmouth, Hampshire: harbour and dockyard, with Edward VIIs yacht at the jetty Date: 1904

CHINA CLAY / DOCKYARD
Transporting China Clay from Charlestown, near St Austell, Cornwall, to the docks. Discovered in the UK in the 1740s, St Austell is one of the main sources of China Clay. Date: 1930s

WOOLWICH DOCKYARD 1772
A busy scene at Woolwich dockyard. Date: 1772

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