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	Chatham Dockyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chatham was established as a royal dockyard by Elizabeth I in 1567.
		Among the earliest for Chatham was Upnor Castle, built in 1567, on the opposite side of the River Medway.
		The growing importance of the dockyard was illustrated between 1619-20 with the addition of two new mast ponds, and the granting of additional land on which a dock, storehouse, and various brick and lime kilns were planned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chatham_Dockyard (1320 words)

	Chatham Dockyard
		Chatham dockyard, situated on the Medway, was a major naval base for the Royal Navy for many centuries during the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I. For ex-employees and families of ex-employees of Chatham Dockyard a message board has been set up click here to view messages.
		This immense addition to Chatham dockyard, which was practically the creation of a new establishment fitted to cope with the growing needs of the Fleet, was completed in 1885, when a simple inaugural ceremony took place in September.
		The extension of the dockyard was not confined to basins and docks.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /chatham_dockyard.htm (5029 words)

	Fortified Places > Fortresses > Chatham
		Elizabeth I founded the dockyard at Chatham in the late 16th century and Upnor Castle was built a short way downstream for its defence.
		The dockyard at Chatham was used increasingly by the Royal Navy during the wars with Spain, and a chain was thrown across the river at Gillingham to provide additional defence.
		The historic dockyard at Chatham is a major tourist attraction with three historic ships on display and a number of exhibitions.
	www.fortified-places.com /chatham.html (817 words)

	Chatham Naval Dockyard - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Chatham Dockyard is the supreme example of a Royal dockyard largely unaltered from the age of sail, at a period when the Royal Navy was instrumental in Britain's global influence and when, before the full impact of the Industrial Revolution, dockyards were the largest industrial centres in Europe.
		The dockyard contained all the facilities necessary to build, repair, maintain and equip ships of the fleet, and was supplemented by facilities for the Ordnance Board, responsible for the supply of guns, ammunition and powder to the navy and army.
		On the high ground east of the dockyard continuous artillery fortifications were provided in the mid 1Sth century, called the Brompton Lines, with a concentration of guns and troops at Fort Amherst, overlooking the town of Chatham and controlling access to the military zone of the dockyard, barracks and ordnance wharf.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/1309 (858 words)

	Chatham the Royal Dockyard
		Chatham declined in importance and became largely limited to ship building and long term ship maintenance because the eight mile journey up the twisting Medway was difficult in the age of sail.
		Despite this major Victorian expansion, the shallow waters of the Medway would never be suitable for the larger warships of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, so the yard began to specialize in submarines and cruisers.
		This model in the Chatham Dockyard Historical Society Museum shows the yard as it would have appeared in the 1850s, which is much as it appears today.
	johnsmilitaryhistory.com /chatham.html (1331 words)

	UK Maritime News - The Historic Dockyard and Chatham Maritime Reach Finals of the Deputy Prime Minister's Sustainable ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chatham Historic Dockyard and Chatham Maritime have celebrated reaching the finals of The Deputy Prime Minister's Sustainable Communities Award; just 20 years after the closure of the Royal Dockyard at Chatham, Kent threatened to plunge the area into an economic crisis from which it might never have recovered.
		Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust (CHDT) and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) joined forces for the Award, which was announced during a gala dinner being held last night (1st February) to mark The Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit 2005, being held at the GMEX/Manchester International Convention Centre.
		Chatham Dockyard was closed in 1984 triggering significant economic hardship for the Medway Towns.
	oceanmc.com /news/index.php/new/2006/09/17/the_historic_dockyard_and_chatham_mariti (716 words)

	Chatham, Medway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chatham is an English town that developed around an important naval dockyard on the east bank of the River Medway in the county of Kent.
		Chatham Dockyard was established by Henry VIII and the small village of Chatham grew.
		Chatham stood on Watling Street, the Roman road from London to the Kent Coast; the length of it from Chatham to Canterbury was turnpiked in 1730, to become the A2 main road in the 1920s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chatham,_Kent (989 words)

	SUBMARINES : CHATHAM BUILT
		The Royal Dockyard at Chatham was established in the 16th century during the reign of Elizabeth 1st.
		Visitors to the Historic Dockyard, can see No.7 slipway and also, in the Wooden Walls exhibition, they will see the marking-out floor where templates were constructed for use during the building of the boats.
		Many thanks to John Chambers and all at Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust for the use of their research facilities and to the Chatham Dockyard Historical Society for their help and especially to Peter Dawson for allowing the use of material from the magazine 'CHIPS' to be reproduced on this site.
	www.csubmarine.org (492 words)

	BBC - Kent Discover Kent History - Chatham Dockyard
		Chatham Dockyard was the workplace for many different people.
		Henry Steer worked in Chatham dockyard as a refitter on the nuclear submarines.
		Chatham had the capacity to do dual-stream refits making use of docks six and seven in the harbour.
	www.bbc.co.uk /kent/news/features/chatham/dockers.shtml (312 words)

	Chatham Historic Dockyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chatham Historic Dockyard is a museum on part of the site of the former royal/naval dockyard at Chatham in Kent, England.
		Chatham Dockyard covered 400 acres (1.6 km²) and was one of the Royal Navy's main facilities for several hundred years until it was closed in 1984.
		Workers at the dockyard performed eight years of restoration work on the Havengore, the ceremonial vessel that carried the body of Winston Churchill during his state funeral.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chatham_Historic_Dockyard (331 words)

	Chatham Dockyard
		The passage of time at Chatham Dockyard with a stop off in the 1950's/60's as well as pictures of what is there in 2000.
		Chatham has always thought of itself as the birthplace of the British Navy and was certainly familiar to Henry VIII.
		The most powerful navy in the world now had to rely on Chatham Dockyard Mateys giving their all in support of their part of that navy as war descended.
	www.burrill12.freeserve.co.uk /RNB/HMDockyardChatham.htm (1855 words)

	A History of Chatham Memorial Synagogue
		The Encyclopedia Judaica records that, at the entrance to the cathedral chapter house, there is a fine specimen of the conventional medieval carvings representing Church and Synagogue, the latter as a dejected, blindfolded female, bearing a broken staff and the tablets of the Ten Commandments.
		Chatham and Rochester have been major ports for hundreds of years, with ships trading to and from Baltic, North European and Low Countries ports, so it was not unnatural for Jews, on arrival in this country, as religious or economic refugees, to settle in the immediate area, even if only transiently.
		Kent Artillary Volunteers, a member of the Board of Management of the Synagogue, a director of the Chatham Railway and a Mayor of Queenborough, a town on the Isle of Sheppey (apparently as a mark of gratitude for his having been instrumental in bringing the railway to Sheerness and Queenborough).
	www.chathamshul.fsnet.co.uk /history.html (1430 words)

	Chatham
		Chatham is the name of an English town that developed around an important naval dockyard on the east bank of the River Medway in the county of Kent.
		Together with Rochester and Gillingham[?] it is part of a conurbation called the Medway Towns, having a combined population of approximately 250,000.
		The dockyard ceased to operate as a naval base in 1984.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chatham.html (136 words)

	Hotels in Chatham Kent accommodation - Chatham hotels accommodation in Kent UK
		From Chatham you are well placed to visit the white cliffs of Dover, many medieval towns, historic castles and bustling seaside resorts.
		Chatham in Kent is opposite Rochester on the river Medway.
		Chatham has a naval dock history, and in recent years the old docks have been developed into a heritage centre.
	www.kayukay.co.uk /chathamhotels.html (680 words)

	Chatham Dockyard Visit - Rotary Club of Ipswich Orwell
		The visit arranged by Peter Smith to Chatham Dockyard on Sunday 7th September was enjoyed by several Orwellians and their families and friends.
		The Royal Naval Dockyard at Chatham closed in 1984 and the 80-acre site beside the Medway is now a fascinating tourist centre.
		Historic Chatham prepared the ships of the Elizabethan navy in 1588 for battle against the Spanish Armada, and rope for sailing ships has been laid at Chatham since the year 1618.
	www.ipswichorwellrotary.fsnet.co.uk /news/chatham.htm (316 words)

	Chatham Dockyard (BHC1782) - National Maritime Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Of the foreground ships moored in the Medway, one to right flying the blue ensign and Union flag is fully rigged, while the other two to the centre fly the Union flag but are 'in ordinary' (reserve) lacking all but their lower masts.
		Behind that on the left, the main twin-towered dockyard gate (1719) sits in a dog-leg in the outer wall and to its left the sail and flag lofts and a long terrace of officers houses, completed in 1731, with gardens running back to the wall.
		Dockyards contained symbolic significance as well as practical importance as the origin of Britain's mighty navy and in the late 18th-century they grew both in size and significance as Britain once again prepared to go to war with France.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=BHC1782 (604 words)

	Document Storage In A Fire Protected Secure Warehouse From The Chatham Archive.
		The Chatham Archive and Document Storage Company was incorporated in 1993 with the specific aim of establishing a high security archive and document storage company in Anchor Wharf, a 176,000 sq ft storage facility that was purpose built by the Royal Navy to meet its small item storage requirements.
		This dockyard was used by the Royal Navy from 1547 until 1983.
		Chatham is 45 minutes drive from the City, 40 minutes from Sevenoaks, 20 from Maidstone and 40 from Canterbury.
	www.chathamarchive.co.uk /front.php (216 words)

	Chatham Historic Dockyard
		The Historic Dockyard at Chatham lies on the banks of the River Medway and was home to the Royal Navy, founded by Henry VIII, for over 300 years.
		Chatham was the birthplace of many of Britain's finest sailing ships that helped build the British Empire, including Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar HMS Victory.
		The dockyard covers about 80 acres and was in use as a Royal Dockyard from 1613 to 1984, and today forms the most complete dockyard for the Age of Sail surviving in the World.
	www.places-to-go.org.uk /chatham_historic_dockyard.htm (259 words)

	Naval Dockyard Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Available from W H Smiths, it is a photographic record of the town of Chatham (including the naval dockyard, hospital, marine barracks and naval barracks) focusing on the twentieth century.
		In the 1990s a major dockyard redevelopment plan, now in progress, was announced to consolidate ship-repair facilities through the demolition of many of the World War II buildings and construction of a single, monolithic industrial structure.
		While previous long-term dockyard master plans had identified continuing uses for the yard’s most historic buildings, the current direction of base planning is toward the declaring surplus of most pre-1930s structures.
	www.hants.gov.uk /navaldockyard/NewsletterDec2002.htm (6747 words)

	Chatham: HDS Docks With the Past (Historical Diving Society]
		Chatham stands on the River Medway which empties into the Thames Estuary at Sheerness and Whitstable (another famous diving town) a few miles to the north.
		Following the defeat of France at Waterloo both Chatham dockyard and the Royal Engineers entered a period which, though relatively peaceful, was revolutionary in terms of invention and innovation.
		However such is the nature of Chatham Navy days that 'anything might happen', as was the case a couple of years ago when international relations were cemented with the crew of a visiting French minesweeper, the divers of which were 'dipped'.
	www.thehds.com /events/chathampast.html (1125 words)

	Chatham Historic Dockyard: 400 years of naval history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Curator of the Chatham Dockyard Museum Alison Marsh will be discussing its history ranging from the 16th century until its closure in 1984.
		Manager of the Centre for Kentish Studies Stuart Bligh said: "For many years Chatham Dockyard was the largest employer in the Medway towns.
		Many local people had relatives working in the dockyard or serving with the Navy and the buildings are still an important feature of the Chatham townscape.
	www.kent.gov.uk /news/jan-06-chatham-talk.htm (198 words)

	Brunel's Sawmill, Chatham Dockyard
		Sawpits, usually grouped together in rows, and ideally covered by a roof, were the traditional method of sawing wood in dockyards.
		He next set his sights on designing a steam powered saw mill, and since Chatham was primarily a building yard, it was the logical place for the new project, which would also feature a small version of his block mills on the upper floor.
		Before, the dockyards employed 900 total sawyers, and of that total, 150 worked in Chatham who were paid 11,000 pounds per year.
	johnsmilitaryhistory.com /chathambrunel.html (849 words)

	Sheerness Dockyard
		As an adjunct to the Chatham establishment, and it remained under the inspection of the Commissioner of the latter yard until 1796.
		The dockyard at Sheerness, completed in 1823, and grafted, if one may use the expression, upon the trunk of its Pepysian predecessor, is that which exists, developed in various ways, at the present time.
		In the 1660s, its future as a naval dockyard began in the form of a ramshackle depot and its strategic importance was soon realised by the Admiralty.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /sheerness_dockyard.htm (3551 words)

	Chatham - Heritage Lottery Fund
		In 1984 the Royal Dockyard at Chatham was closed, bringing to an end 400 years of ship-building history.
		After the closure, the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust was established to encourage development and commercial enterprise and to preserve Europe’s most complete example of an 18th century dockyard.
		The Historic Dockyard has attracted almost 2 million visitors and is helping to support the wider retail and leisure economy of Chatham.
	www.hlf.org.uk /English/InYourArea/SouthEastEngland/CaseStudies/Chatham.htm (357 words)

	Portsmouth Historic Ships: The Historic Dockyard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With Plymouth and Chatham, Portsmouth Dockyard is one of the great historical dockyards of Britain - the first dock was built in 1194 and the yard was enclosed by a wall on the orders of King John in 1212 (three years before he was forced to sign Magna Carta).
		The audio trail introduces the Dockyard buildings and some of the people who lived, worked and died here - including the infamous 'Jack the Painter', a saboteur at the time of the War of American Independence.
		Jack was convicted of arson in the Dockyard and was hanged from a 60 foot mast specially erected just inside of the Victory Gate.
	www.stvincent.ac.uk /WfS/Tourism/Portsmouth/HistShips/dockyard.html (382 words)

	BBC - Kent Discover Kent - History - Chatham Dockyard
		When HMS Hermione sailed out of Chatham Naval Base and Dockyard she took more than four hundred years of history with her.
		Those who had worked on her were only too aware that she was the end of a tradition of shipbuilding, which had forged the very nature of the Medway Towns.
		Two trusts were established - the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust to look after the Dock and what eventually became the Chatham Maritime Trust, under the auspice of the South East Development Agency.
	www.bbc.co.uk /kent/news/features/chatham/index.shtml (247 words)

	Maritime Heritage Trail - English Channel maritime history trail
		In 1667 it was the target of a raid by the Dutch fleet who succeeded in breaking the defensive chain across the River Medway and captured the Royal Charles, flagship of the English fleet.
		By the 18th Century, the Dockyard was the Royal Navy’s main shipbuilding and repair yard.
		The Historic Dockyard is a major maritime museum site with galleries (the Museum of the Royal Dockyard, Ropery and Wooden Walls) and historic warships (HMS Cavalier, HMS Gannet and HMS Ocelot) that celebrate Chatham’s naval past.
	www.maritimeheritagetrail.co.uk /EN/locations.php?language=EN&locid=3 (249 words)

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