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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.
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 ...
The fore royal yard on the Prince William. Prince William's royal yards are the highest and smallest yards on the ship, are made of wood, and are "lifting yards" that can be raised along a section of the mast. Here it is in the lowered position. A yard is a spar on a mast from which sails are set.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
The station closed in 1830, but the Royal Navy continued to operate the dockyard until it closed it in 1905. An earthquake in 1907 and hurricane in 1951 damaged the abandoned dockyard. Part of the station now houses the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Coast Guard (HMJS Cagway , Port Royal); the rest is being restored as part of the Port ...
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 ...