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The Royal Navy began to invest into Bermudian real-estate in 1795. Very early, it began to buy islands at the West End of the chain, and in the Great Sound, with the view to building a naval base and dockyard. Unfortunately, at that time, there was no known channel wide and deep enough to allow large naval vessels to gain access to the Great Sound.
It is regarded as one of the six principal islands of Bermuda, and part of the West End of the archipelago. King's Wharf. In 1618, a privateering vessel under the command of a notorious pirate by the name of Powell ran aground on the main island, and Powell was banished to the island (which at that time was uninhabited) by the colonial governor.
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For a long time, well into the eighteenth century, a Royal Dockyard was often referred to as The King's Yard (or The Queen's Yard, as appropriate). In 1694, Edmund Dummer referred to "His Majesty's new Dock and Yard at Plymouth "; from around that time, HM Dock Yard (or HM Dockyard ) increasingly became the official designation.
Naval Operating Base Bermuda; Naval Station Bermuda; U S Naval Air Station Bermuda. The grants came as a surprise to the Colonial Government, when US engineers arrived in 1940 to begin surveying the colony for the construction of an airfield that was envisioned as taking over most of the West End of the Island. Frantic protests by the Governor ...
Ferry boat at the Dockyard. SeaExpress operates four routes for ferries and boats that originate from the ferry terminal in Hamilton. The "Blue Route" services the West End and the Dockyard of Sandys, the "Orange Route" links to the Dockyard and St. George's, the "Green Route" travels to Rockaway of Southampton, and the "Pink Route" brings passengers to points in Paget and Warwick.
English: The former Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot of Ordnance Island (left), the former Commissariat Department depot (later a Royal Army Service Corps Wharf, and containing Bermuda's only brick building) in St. George's Town, in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, and Fort George on the crest of Mount Hill, above the town.