Dockyard Collection (page 2)

HMS Royal William
HMS Prince, 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett the Younger at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1670

Launch of The Avenger Steam Frigate at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth
Launch of " The Avenger" Steam Frigate at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth. The ceremony of christening the vessel was performed by Miss Harding, a niece of the gallant Admiral Superintendent

King George V (1865-1936) and Queen Mary (1867-1953) visit a factory workshop during a tour of the North Eastern Counties of England. Date: circa 1916

Copenhagen, Denmark - View of the Naval Dockyard - note the early submarine coming up for air. Date: 1931

Embarking elephants at Bombay for the Abyssinian Expedition
Embarking elephants at Bombay (Mumbai) for the Abyssinian Expedition Date: 1868

Ships in Chatham Dockyard, Kent. They are the Monitor HMS Marshal Soult, the D34 Destroyer HMS Velox, and two V Class destroyers. Date: circa 1930

VAN WITTEL, Gaspar (1653-1736). View of The Arsenal

Malta - Dockyard Creek, Grand Harbour, Valletta Date: circa 1910s

Board game, The Dockyard, or Table Shipbuilding, by Mrs Alliston - Yacht. 19th century

Board game box lid, The Dockyard, or Table Shipbuilding, by Mrs Alliston. 19th century

The Last of the Royal Yacht - Victoria and Albert
Photograph of the Royal yacht, Victoria and Albert being broken up in Portsmouth Dockyard, being, now quite out of date. The yacht as it was three years before is shown in the top photograph

Bermuda - Dockyard - looking south
HMD Bermuda (Her/His Majestys Dockyard) - the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War - looking south Date: circa 1910s

Launch of the Hannibal steamship, 1854
The launch of the HMSS Hannibal screw steamship on 31st January 1854 at Deptford Dockyard. The ship served in the Crimean War. Date: 1854

Wreck of the Royal George
The HMS Royal George was built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1756, and sank whilst anchored off Portsmouth on 29 August 1782. Date: 1782

Blowing up of the Royal George
Wreck of the HMS Royal George blown up after failure of the attempts to raise her. Date: 1782

Admiralty Pier, Dockyard, Cape Town, South Africa. Date: circa 1908

The Cambre - Dockyard, Bermuda - note the fine example of a floating dry dock (left). Date: circa 1909

Istanbul, Turkey - Scene from Naval Dockyard - light railway. Date: 1923

Valletta, Malta - Dockyard Creek. Date: 1923

Spain. Barcelona. Dockyards door and ascent to the wall of s
Barcelona. Dockyards door and ascent to the wall of sea. Engraving, 19th century. Drawing of G. Mosteyrin. Museum of City History. Barcelona. Spain

Port of Barcelona during his construction. 16th century. Spa
Spain. Catalonia. Port of Barcelona during his construction. 16th century. Book of Weapons and Flags of Different Lineages and Portraits. National Library. Madrid

Big Crane of Mitsubishi Dockyard, Nagasaki, Japan
An interesting wooden postcard featuring the Big Crane of the Mitsubishi Dockyard, Nagasaki, Japan Date: circa early 1910s

Clarence House, English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
Clarence House and Nelsons Dockyard, English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies. Date: circa 1910

Bombay Docks
Dockyard cranes at Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1930

Portsmouth dockyard. 1900s

Portsmouth harbour, photographed in the harbour Nelsons flagship, best known for her role in the Battle of Trafalgar. 1900s

Chatham Dockyard Prison Officers
A group photo of the officers at Chatham Dockyard Prison

Canton, China
Watercolour by a local artist, commissioned by Henry Fletcher Hance; c.1853 Date: 1853

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, down the river Clyde
Queen Mary set out on its first voyage, from Clydebank John Browns shipyard where her interior was fitted out, down the river Clyde to Greenock Scotland, escorted by tugs to the sea

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, ready for journey down the Clyde
Queen Mary Ocean Liner, at her berth in Clydebank, ready to take her first journey down the river Clyde to Southampton, for her final fitting-out on 24 march 1936. Date: 1936

WWI Poster, Every Second Matters
Every Second Matters, Every second saved in unloading these ships means another American soldier and more food. British Dockyard work incentive poster supporting the Americans coming into the war

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, suspended
R.M.S. Queen Mary at the John Brown shipyard, December 1931. Work on the ship, then known as Cunard No. 534, had been suspended on 13th December 1931 as Cunard had run out of funds

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, ready for travel to Greenock
Front cover of Weekly Illustrated magazine, photograph showing the Queen Mary lying in the dock ay Clydebank in Scotland, from which she will have to be manoeuvred across the river into the mouth of

Queen Mary Ocean Liner crisis stops work
Tragedy comes to Clydeside. On 10th December 1931, almost exactly a year after signing of the contract for the construction of Hull Number 534, know as Queen Mary Ocean Liner

Building of the battleship Dreadnought
Construction of one of the Eight Dreadnoughts (battleships) being constructed in the early 20th century by the British, at Portsmouth dockyard. 1909

USS Maury, American destroyer, Key West, Florida, USA
USS Maury (DD100), American destroyer, at the dockyard in Key West, Florida, USA. Date: circa 1920

British v. American navy boxing championship, WW1
British v. American navy grand fleet boxing championship, taking place at Rosyth Dockyard, Fife, Scotland, on 28-29 July 1918, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 1918

Chief Scout inspecting scout troops, Valletta, Malta
Chief Scout, Sir Robert Baden Powell, accompanied by the Colonial Chief Scout, General Sir Leslie Rundle, inspecting scout troops on Palace Square, Valletta, Malta, 13 February 1913

Men on board the DW27 of Chatham, Kent, with two lifebelts

Munitions being loaded onto battleship, WW1
A dockyard scene during the First World War showing munitions being hoisted aboard a battleship. Date: 1915

Bending armour-plates by hydraulic pressure
The new iron-clad fleet: bending armour-plates by hydraulic pressure at Chatham Dockyard. Date: 1863

Gibraltar - The Dockyard and Workshops Date: circa 1910s

St Georges Harbour - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Submarine training at HMS Vernon - Escape Chamber
Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Waiting on the surface after a successful escape. Date: late 1930s

Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Operating the flooding gear in the escape chamber of a Submarine. Date: late 1930s

The Naval Dockyard - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: 1914

Princess Alexandra of Denmark launches the HMS Queen
Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925) (wife of King Edward VII) - Queen consory of the United Kingdom and British Dominions - Empress consort of India (1901-1910)

Hamilton, Bermuda - Regiment on Parade Date: 1907

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