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A 1909 map of HM Dockyard, Devonport, also showing the Gun Wharf (Morice Yard) located between the South Yard and the North Yard. From its original 17th-century site, around No.1 Dock in what is now called the South Yard, the dockyard expanded in stages (first to the south and then progressively northwards) over the next two-and-a-half centuries.
Devonport Naval Base is the home of the Royal New Zealand Navy, located at Devonport, New Zealand on Auckland's North Shore. It is currently the only base of the navy that operates ships, and has been in use as a navy base since 1841. [ 1 ]
Royal Navy Dockyard, Pembroke, 1860 HMS Westminster undergoing refit in a covered dry-dock at Devonport, 2009. Kinsale Dockyard (1647) Served as a supply and repair base (with some evidence of shipbuilding) for the Royal Navy's Irish Squadron, and later as a cruiser base. Closed by 1812, its facilities having relocated to Haulbowline (see below).
The Board struck a deal with the Royal Navy for primary use of the dock. [3] This led to the Auckland naval base moving from Torpedo Bay to Devonport, into a swamp area next to the dock. [4] [5] [6] After World War I, the Royal Navy expanded the facilities in the area, including work to extend the dock and create more workshops to service the ...
RNH Plymouth, known as Stonehouse, Devonport, England; ... was the Royal Navy's biggest dockyard and its base of operations in the Far East from 1939 until 1971. HMS ...
HMS Drake, also known as the Fleet Accommodation Centre, is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy on Saltash Road in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth, England. It provides the naval barracks to support HMNB Devonport.
Devonport Dockyard may refer to: HMNB Devonport, Devonport, Devon, England, one of the main bases of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom; Devonport Naval Base, ...
Devonport Naval base/Dockyard has, over the years, been known as "Guz" by naval ratings. There are various explanations for the nickname: the Royal Naval Museum says it is short for Guzzle and refers to Devon cream teas. [25] Engraving circa 1825 of John Foulston's Town Hall, Column and Egyptian Revival Library Devonport's town hall and column ...