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Jamaica Dockyard also known as Port Royal Dockyard [1] was a British Royal Navy Dockyard located at Port Royal, Jamaica. It was established 1675 and closed in 1905. The dockyard was initially administered by the Navy Board then later the Board of Admiralty.
Port Royal (Jamaican Patois: Puat Rayal) is a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica.Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest and most prosperous city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and commerce in the Caribbean Sea by the latter half of the 17th century. [1]
Following the Port Royal earthquake of 1692, and a succession of damaging hurricanes, a concerted attempt was made from 1729 to relocate Jamaica's naval yard to Port Antonio, an unsettled bay on the opposite side of the island; the climate there was not agreeable, however, there were high levels of sickness and the Navy abandoned Port Antonio ...
Safe Harbor is capitalizing on the deep water of the Port of Port Royal, where depths measure at 25 feet at low tides. And no overhead bridge restrictions block access to open water. Its location ...
A sailboat and a shrimp boat, pictured here on Sept. 21, 2022, still must be removed from the pier in Battery Creek before the Town of Port Royal can build a new pier at the end of 11th Street in ...
Just when the rocky relationship between the town of Port Royal and Safe Harbor Marinas over the town’s waterfront development appeared to be improving, the partnership took a wrong turn this ...
Giddy House was constructed in 1888 as a Royal Artillery House at Fort Charles. Fort Charles is one of the oldest forts in Port Royal. Located on the western end of the Palisadoes Strip, Fort Charles was built by the British after Jamaica was taken from the Spaniards. The Fort was initially named Fort Cromwell after a general at the time but ...
Port Royal and Safe Harbor Marina officials say a Feb. 1 meeting called to air concerns about a marina-centered development on the town waterfront restarted a long-stalled dialogue.