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Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy dockyard on the River Medway in Kent that developed from the mid-16th century into a large naval-industrial complex. Over centuries it grew to include multiple dry docks, covered slipways, mast ponds, storehouses, smitheries and workshops and remained a working yard until closure in 1984; much of the Georgian yard survives as a historic site.
First raised
1567
Its prime
1914
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1914
What Chatham Dockyard looked like in its prime.
A long riverside industrial complex stretching roughly a mile along the Medway, composed of red‑brick storehouses and workshops, tall pitched-roof covered slipways, brick perimeter walls and gatehouses, rows of dry docks and quays, timber yards and rectangular mast ponds; dark-hulled steam and steel warships and sailing masts fill the water, while tall chimneys and cranes punctuate the skyline, and wooden staging and scaffolding hug vessel hulls under construction.
From the sea
Ships that came to Chatham Dockyard.
- HMS Challenger: Overhauled at Chatham Dockyard in 1878 for a training role never taken up
- HMS Victory: Keel laid in Chatham's Old Single Dock in 1759, since renamed Victory Dock
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1914.
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