1868 Large Antique Print- Chatham Dockyards - Center of Naval Ship Construction

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A superb double-page engraving published in The Illustrated London News magazine dated September 19, 1868 and entitled;"The Naval Docks In Course Of Construction At Chatham"Chatham Dockyard built over 500 ships for the Royal Navy during its 414 years of operation - see belowGood condition with central fold as originally published. Related and unrelated text above, below and to the reverse. Dated in top margin. Page size 23 x 16 inches.This is an original antique print and not a reproduction . Great collectors item for the historian - see more of these double page engravings in Seller's Other Items which can be combined for mailing at no additional cost .Note: Free Postage - if 3 of these double-page lots are purchased, international mailing will be free - if 2 lots are purchased , domestic mail would be free.Chatham Dockyard From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCoordinates : 51°23′50″N 00°31′40″EChatham Dockyard shown within Kent ( grid reference TQ759692 ) This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2009) The Commissioner's House (1704), was built for Captain George St Lo who found the previous house unsuitable. It remains the oldest surviving naval building in England.Chatham Dockyard , located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent , England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation , relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional defences. For 414 years Chatham Dockyard provided over 500 ships for the Royal Navy , and was forefront of shipbuilding , industrial and architectural technology . At its height, it employed over 10,000 skilled artisans and covered 400 acres (1.6 km²). Chatham dockyard closed in 1984, and 84 acres (340,000 m 2 ) of the Georgian dockyard is now managed as a visitor attraction by the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust .Contents [ hide ] 1 Outline history 2 Personalities 3 Descriptions 4 Significant buildings within the Georgian Dockyard 4.1 Wood and canvas 4.2 Dry docks and covered slips 4.3 Offices and residential 4.4 Anchor Wharf and the Ropery 4.5 Later buildings 5 Defence of the dockyard 5.1 Upnor Castle 5.2 Chain defence 5.3 The Lines 6 Growth of the dockyard 7 Closure and regeneration 8 Filming 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksOutline history [ edit ] Engraving of "Chatham Dockyard from Fort Pitt " from Ireland's History of Kent, Vol. 4, 1831. Facing p 349. Drawn by G. Sheppard, engraved by R. Roffe. Dutch Attack on the Medway , June 1667 by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest , painted c. 1667. The captured ship Royal Charles is right of centreThe Treasurer of the Navy 's accounts of the King's Exchequer for the year 1544 identifies Deptford as the Dockyard that carried out all the major repairs to the King's Ships that year. That was soon to change, although Deptford remained a dockyard for over three centuries. In 1547 Jillingham ( Gillingham ) water , as Chatham Dockyard was then known, is mentioned as second only in importance to Deptford; followed by Woolwich , Portsmouth and Harwich . In 1550 ships that were then lying off Portsmouth were ordered to be harboured in Jillingham Water, "by reason of its superior strategic location" . Chatham was established as a royal dockyard by Elizabeth I in 1567. She herself visited the yard in 1573. By the late 17th century it was the largest refitting dockyard, important during the Dutch wars. It was, however superseded first by Portsmouth , then Plymouth , when the main naval enemy became France, and the Western approaches the chief theatre of operations. In addition, the Medway had begun to silt up, making navigation more difficult. Chatham became a building yard rather than a refitting base.In 1622, the dockyard moved from its original location (now the gun wharf to the south) to its present site. Among many other... read more

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