EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; slightly asymmetrical 1:2:1:2:1-bay with roudelled balustrades carried on moulded brackets. Dived here recently? [36] It is the base for HMS Triumph, one of two remainingTrafalgar-class nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarines. In the 1760s a period of expansion began, leading to a configuration which (despite subsequent rebuildings) can still be seen today: five slipways, four dry docks and a wet basin (slipways were used for shipbuilding, but the main business of the eighteenth-century yard was the repair, maintenance and equipping of the fleet, for which the dry docks and basin were used). [4], In 1588, the ships of the English Navy set sail for the Spanish Armada through the mouth of the River Plym, thereby establishing the military presence in Plymouth. The vast site covers more than 650 acres and has 15 dry docks, four miles of waterfront, 25 tidal berths and five basins. For the Royal New Zealand Navy base in Auckland, New Zealand, see, "HMS Drake (shore establishment)" redirects here. Like their famous predecessor, Francis Drake, these sailors, from HMS 'Drake', find time for a game of bowls on Plymouth Ho before reporting for duty. Free car parking is available above the harbour and marina. Water and electricity are available on the pontoon but there is no reliable source of fuel. Other fronts have tripartite entrances and 1st-floor balconies With such limited manoeuvrability however, HMS Drake collided with the cargo ship Mendip Range at 10.37 am.HMS Drake it seems did not receive much damage from the collision, but the Mendip Range was forced to beach at Ballycastle Bay on the mainland. Read the Enriching the List Terms and Conditions. 3 Slip, tested in No. 1898 saw the barracks expand to accommodate a further 1,000 men. As a young teenager, I remember the frequent visits of Fleetwood trawlers to Ballycastle. Below parapet cornice; 4 pilasters and central round-arched window Patients using these may have an infectious disease which may need a degree of isolation or an acute illness needing the oversight of a clinician. Those unable to expand were closed; the rest underwent a transformation through growth and mechanisation. The base began as Royal Navy Dockyard in the late 17th century, but shipbuilding ceased at Devonport in the early 1970s, although ship maintenance work has continued. The ship type is rare and represents an intermediate design of armoured cruiser that quickly became obsolete. An aerial photograph of the core of HMNB Devonport in 2005 with several ships alongside. In time new gunpowder magazines were built further north, first at Keyham (1770s), but later (having to make way for further dockyard expansion) relocating to Bull Point (1850). Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development. The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and the free to access part of the website is funded by donations from our visitors. In 1832 the Navy Board was abolished, everything except the gun wharves were brought under the direct control of the Admiralty. Be the first to add a photo and help showcase this place to others. Do you have any photos of this dive site you would like to contribute? The base employs 2,500 Service personnel and civilians, supports . The convoy dispersed at 08.03 am, but just over an hour later HMS Drake was torpedoed under the second funnel by a German U-boat, U-79, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Otto Rohrbeck, five miles north of Rathlin Island. This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. The town that grew around the dockyard was called Plymouth Dock up to 1823, when the townspeople petitioned for it to be renamed Devonport. Our [10], Most of these buildings and structures were rebuilt over ensuing years, including Dummer's original basin and dry dock (today known as No. Environmental and Historical Designations: A list of any environmental or historical designations attributed to the site, or overlapping it. buildings at HMS Pembroke at Chatham and HMS Nelson at Port Admiral Devonport and Flag Officer Plymouth, dockyard divisions of the Metropolitan Police, 47 Commando (Raiding Group) Royal Marines, "The Ingenious Mr Dummer: Rationalizing the Royal Navy in Late Seventeenth-Century England", "No 2 Dock, including bollards and capstans, Non Civil Parish - 1432153 | Historic England", "Thematic Survey of English Naval Dockyards", "NUMBER 4 STORE (MO 70), City of Plymouth 1378551- Historic England", "NUMBER 6 SAIL LOFT (MO 61), City of Plymouth 1378562- Historic England", "NUMBER 5 STORE, COLOUR LOFT (MO 56), City of Plymouth 1378560- Historic England", "THE OFFICERS TERRACE (MO 63) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, City of Plymouth 1378564- Historic England", "NUMBER 3 STORE (MO 66), City of Plymouth 1378559- Historic England", "NUMBER 2 STORE AND FORMER FURBISHERS SHOP (MO 68), City of Plymouth 1378550- Historic England", "English Heritage: Thematic History of Ordnance Yards and Magazine Depots", "Plotting Plymouth's Past Devonport's Dock Lines", "1914 Guide for Visitors to Devonport Dockyard", "Weston Mill Lake, HM Naval Base Devonport: Construction of a jetty using concrete caissons", "Devonport nuclear base has special measures extended", "All Type 26 Frigates To Be Based At Devonport", "Defence Secretary announces Type 23 base port moves", "HMS Talent retired. By 1907 Keyham, now renamed the North Yard, had more than doubled in size with the addition of No. 4 and No. Another memorable story is that of a local landlord being invited by the skipper and crew to continue the evening's session aboard ship, he eventually came round on his way to Iceland - the trawler made a detour and dropped him off on the Faroes. central entrance hall divided by marble columns with a large Licence number 102006.006. Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building. The dockyard followed suit twenty years later, becoming Devonport Royal Dockyard. each side with pilasters, cornices and wainscot, and the rear On 5 September 1971, all Flag Officers of the Royal Navy holding positions of Admiral Superintendents at Royal Dockyards were restyled as Port Admirals.[80]. Several sections of the historic South Yard are no longer used by the Ministry of Defence, though it is still currently a closed site and subject to security restrictions. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. Up until 1832 the Plymouth Royal Dockyard, was administered by a Commissioner of the Navy on behalf of the Navy Board in London included:[75][76][77], By An Order in Council dated 27 June 1832 the role of the commissioner was replaced by an admiral-superintendent.[78]. The second survivor managed to escape through the stokehold hatch. Two stationary steam engines drove line shafts and heavy machinery, and the multiple flues were drawn by a pair of prominent chimneys. [2] Discussions were underway in 2014 around removing the museum from the Dockyard and displaying some of its collections within an expanded Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.[58]. staircase; 2 central windows above, then cornice linked to If you have any unwanted Using an old browser means that some parts of our website might not work correctly. Charles Causley referred to Guz in one of his poems, "Song of the Dying Gunner A.A.1", published in 1951.[70]. Search over 400,000 listed places Overview Official List Entry Comments and Photos Previous Overview Next Comments and Photos Learn how your comment data is processed. St Albans moved to Devonport in July 2019 in preparation for her major refit.[38]. 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[2], Further north still, Weston Mill Lake (at one time Devonport's coaling yard) was converted in the 1980s to provide frigate berths for the Type 22 fleet. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. Media in category "HMS Drake (ship, 1901)" The following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total. 3 Division, which remained in that role until 1934. Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment. Samuel Whitmore Rogers HMS Drake (d.21st Apr 1941). One survivor was, incredibly, blown straight onto the upper deck, where he landed uninjured. HMS DRAKE WARDROOM, OFFICERS QUARTERS AND MESS, SALTASH ROAD, Listed on the National Heritage List for England. For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948. Where the old ropehouse had stood a short canal known as the Camber was laid out, terminating in a boat basin with a boathouse. In 2013 a new Royal Marines base, RM Tamar, was opened alongside; as well as serving as headquarters for 1 Assault Group Royal Marines, it can accommodate marines, alongside their ships, prior to deployment. There were originally two gates in the lines, the Stoke Barrier at the end of Fore Street and the Stonehouse Barrier. [63] Another explanation advanced is that "GUZZ" was the radio call sign for the nearby Admiralty wireless station (which was GZX) at Devil's Point,[64] though this is disputed and has recently been disproved by reference to actual wireless telegraphy callsigns in existence over the past century. 655 & 656; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR Swindon: PLM 248-284).Listing NGR: SX4499756685. All students enrolled at HMS are IB students. Attended by tugs in Plymouth Sound this afternoon. [65], Another explanation is that the name came from the Hindi word for a yard (36 inches), "guz", (also spelled "guzz", at the time) which entered the Oxford English Dictionary,[66] and Royal Navy usage,[67] in the late 19th century, as sailors used to regularly abbreviate "The Dockyard" to simply "The Yard", leading to the slang use of the Hindi word for the unit of measurement of the same name. HMS Brisk was built in 1910, a type H (Acorn) destroyer with a top speed of 27 knots. George Patton HMS Drake (d.21st Apr 1941), A/Able Sea. In 2009 the Ministry of Defence announced the conclusion of a long-running review of the long-term role of three naval bases. 2 Slip and moored alongside the quay wall". Ballycastle/Rathlin Harbour Office No. Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Cruisers were a class of warship developed in the 19th century designed for scouting, commerce warfare and showing the flag, roles previously taken by frigates, corvettes and sloops. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. Owned by the Hewitt Fishing Company of Fleetwood, the 'Ella Hewitt' was built in 1953 and at 170 ft was one of largest trawlers operating out of Fleetwood. [9], Before the expansion could begin, a rocky hillside to the south had to be cut away; the rubble was used to reclaim the mudflats ready for building. The nuclear submarine refit base was put into special measures in 2013 by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and it could be 2020 before enhanced monitoring ceases. The vast site covers more than 650 acres and has 15 dry docks, four miles of waterfront, 25 tidal berths and five basins. These innovations also allowed rapid erection of staging and greater workforce mobility. staircase bay with tall double-transomed 3-light round-arched Officer's quarters and wardroom blocks. Located within HMS Drake's Haven and inside the naval base's Wyvern Gym . The site is comprised of the metal wreck of the Drake and a further metal wreck of a 52m Fleetwood fishing trawler, the Ella Hewett that struck and sunk atop the Drake in 1962. The Lugano and the Brisk were both torpedoed by U-boats on the same day. - now Ruttonjee Hospital, RNH Trincomalee, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), HMS Queen Charlotte WWII land based gunnery school, Shore Rd., Ainsdale Southport, Lancashire. PLYMOUTH SX45NW SALTASH ROAD, Devonport Records of HMS Drake from other sources. The numbers employed at the yard increased from 736 in 1711 to 2,464 in 1730. STYLE: Free Classical. The Drakes position is marked with a Commissioners of Irish Lights South Cardinal Buoy (although the buoy is currently situated to the SE of the wreck, off its stern). However, Devonport retains a long-term role as the dedicated home of the amphibious fleet, survey vessels and half the frigate fleet. The largest naval base in Western Europe,[1] HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth, England. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, [13] The three dry docks were rebuilt, expanded and covered over in the 1970s to serve as the Frigate Refit Centre. Your email address will not be published. See HMS Drake, Plymouth on the map. In 2017 the First World War armoured cruiser HMS Drake was scheduled for protection under the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (Northern Ireland) Order 1995. Species of interest are highlighted. In my innocence, I could never figure out why they forgot to put those supplies onboard in Fleetwood. The site is approximately 500m south-west of Church Bay and is marked with a large yellow marker buoy. She became the flagship of Rear Admiral Battenburg in 1905 and her stations included the Mediterranean Grand Fleet from 1914-15 and the North American and West Indies theatre of operations from 1915-17. 1898-1902, After 1860, the fortifications were superseded by the Palmerston Forts around Plymouth and the land occupied by the lines was either sold or utilised by the dockyard. similar to the fronts of the rear wings. limestone dressings; dry slate hipped roofs; stone partly Your email address will not be published. To find an estimate of when your power will be back on, please check your outage status here.. You can also find out how extensive the outages are in your area by viewing our interactive Outage Map.Zoom in on the map and click on the color-coded outage area or search by . [16] To open up the site, the old ropehouse was demolished and a new rope-making complex built alongside the east perimeter wall of the expanded site (where it still survives in part, albeit rebuilt following a fire in 1812). Royal Naval HMNB Devonport dedicates rooms for mums and babies to relax in. Rathlin Harbour has pontoons for around 40 boats. Portsmouth. [17] Initially used for the manufacture of anchors and smaller metal items, it would later be expanded to fashion the iron braces with which wooden hulls and decks began to be strengthened; as such, it provided a hint of the huge change in manufacturing technology that would sweep the dockyards in the nineteenth century as sail began to make way for steam, and wood for iron and steel. In just under three centuries, over 300 vessels were built at Devonport, the last being HMS Scylla in 1971.[12]. When a power outage occurs, DTE Energy crews work as quickly and safely as possible to restore power to all of our customers. round-arched transomed 3-light stair window above a squat Devonport has been the site of a number of leaks of nuclear waste associated with the nuclear submarines based there. [33], In 2011 the MOD sold the freehold of the North Yard to the Dockyard operator, Babcock; the site includes six listed buildings and structures, among them the Grade I listed Quadrangle.[34]. User contributions are not fact checked and do not represent the official position of Historic England. [2], In 1880 a Royal Naval Engineering College was established at Keyham, housed in a new building just outside the dockyard wall alongside the Quadrangle where students (who joined at 15 years of age) gained hands-on experience of the latest naval engineering techniques. [14] It is covered with a timber superstructure of 1814, a similarly rare and early survival of its type; indeed, only three such timber slip covers have survived in Britain, two of them at Devonport (the second of these, of similar vintage, stands over the former No.5 Slip; it was later converted to house the Scrieve Board, for full-size drafting of ship designs). 01/05/75 quarters and Mess GV II* Formerly known as: (HMS Drake) Wardroom Blocks SALTASH ROAD The IB MYP program aims to facilitate maximum academic achievement, develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect as they become lifelong learners. The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. The deep-water access it offers has made the site desirable for manufacturers of 'superyachts' and in 2012 Princess Yachts acquired the freehold to 20 acres (0.081km2) at the southern end, with a view to building a construction facility. A serving Royal Navy officer, usually of rear-admiral rank, was appointed as admiral-superintendent of the dockyard; however, the post was sometimes held by a commodore-superintendent or even a vice-admiral. HMS "DRAKE" Old aerial view of the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport. 3 Basin was the frontispiece to a huge integrated manufacturing complex. A third gate called New Passage was created in the 1780s, giving access to the Torpoint Ferry. [30], At Devonport, in 1864, a separate, purpose-built steam yard was opened on a self-contained site at Keyham, just to the north of Morice Yard (and a tunnel was built linking the new yard with the old). Since 2002, it has been the main refitting base for all Royal Navy nuclear submarines Work was completed by Carillion in 2002 to build a refitting dock to support theVanguard-class Trident missile nuclear ballistic missile submarines. Grade II Listed Building: Hms Drake Main Gateway With Gate Pier Arches, Gates, Flanking Walls And Railings. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. [56] Run by volunteers, it is only accessible for pre-booked tours, or on Naval Base open days. Rathlin MCZ [20][21] In the space between the new slips and the new ropehouse, south of the boat pond, was a sizeable mast pond, flanked by mast-houses. Rathlin SAC He introduced a centralised storage area (the quadrangular Great Storehouse) alongside the basin, and a logical positioning of other buildings around the yard. Stoker Sydney Green HMS Drake (d.18th Jan 1944), OS J Metcalfe HMS Drake (d.5th May 1941), PO. [2], The Devonport Naval Heritage Centre is a maritime museum in Devonport's Historic South Yard. [31] In the 1970s the northern end of No. In 2018 the Defence Secretary announced that the proposed new Type 26 frigates would all be based at Devonport. Both the Brisk and Lugano lie within 3km of each other - although there is no evidence to say that U79 torpedoed HMS Brisk, the proximity of the two attacks would suggest that she may have lay in wait and done so. The postcode is PL2 2BG and a map of where you are going can be found at This, however, began to prove insufficient and in 1719 the board established a new gun wharf on land leased from one Sir Nicholas Morice, immediately to the north of the established Dockyard. On 30 December 1970, Vice-Admiral J R McKaig was appointed as Port Admiral, His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport, and Flag Officer, Plymouth. Since then, the museum has expanded and now occupies, in addition, the 18th-century Pay Office[57] and Porter's Lodge. Scheduled Monument HMS Drake Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team, Bombed library in Holland House, Kensington. Shortly after the men from HMS "Royal Adelaide" entered the newly built Royal Naval Barracks at Keyham it took the name of HMS "Vivid", the Commander-in-Chief's yacht. More They were responsible for all the civilian support services operated by the dockyard departments. Other ships in her class were the Good Hope, King Alfred and Leviathan. The Drake has been extensively damaged both by the original torpedo attack on the vessel, the wrecking of the Ella Hewett and the subsequent dispersal of both wrecks with explosives in the 1970s by divers from the Scottish and Northern Ireland Bomb and Mine Disposal Team. Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment. The name HMS Drake and its command structure has been extended to cover the entire base. Formerly Royal Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment and Support. All rights reserved. This broke the ship in two, the bow section sank in the Sound and the stern section was eventually towed into Londonderry, the explosion killed thirty-one seamen. The dockyard began in what is now known as the South Yard area of Devonport. The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. please Rathlin Island SPA, Irish Wrecks Online Required fields are marked *. officers were housed in Howard and Seymour blocks (qqv) before [35] This part of the site contains some fourteen listed buildings and structures. She had a crew complement of 32 seamen. Sailors lived in hulks until the first barracks Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Devonport - arrive at DRAKE main gate (which is not Camels Head Gate nor Albert Gate). Public access, i.e., diving on the site is permitted on a look but do not touch basis. Her armaments included two primary 9.2-inch centre line turrets, sixteen secondary 6-inch single barbettes, twelve auxiliary twelve pounders, three auxiliary three pounders and two eighteen-inch submerged torpedo tubes. These are: Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Perform a free public GIS maps search, including geographic information systems, GIS services, and GIS databases. Ldg.Sea. HMS Drake (1743) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743 and sold in 1748. A map of all dive centres is provided under Go Diving. Buildings Scheduled monuments Parks and gardens Battlefields Shipwrecks. After the attack and as normal procedure, the convoy dispersed, the remaining naval and auxiliary escorts including the HMS Brisk, a type H (Acorn) destroyer were deployed to follow up on the dispersed ships, some through Rathlin Sound and others in the North Channel. Many stories surround the sinking and why she hit the wreck, a relative of mine listened to the May Day call on his wireless set in Ballintoy, the Portrush lifeboat came to her assistance and took the crew off with no casualties. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. above main parapet level. Free public toilets are available in the visitor information office above the harbour. A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. She was renamed HMS Resolution in 1771 and served James Cook on his second and third voyages of discovery in the Pacific. Her armaments included - 34 UE150 type mines, one fore and one aft torpedo tubes, four 50 cm torpedoes and an 8.8cm mounted gun on her deck. We would go down to the quay to watch these visitors come ashore to make what I was told was a 'last port of call' to get supplies they needed before heading out for their long and arduous time in the Icelandic fishing grounds. Edmund Dummer, Surveyor of the Navy, travelled the West Country searching for an area where a dockyard could be built; he sent in two estimates for sites, one in Plymouth, Cattewater and one further along the coast, on the Hamoaze, a section of the River Tamar, in the parish of Stoke Damerel. There are many local stories of skipper's being carried out of pubs by the crew and taken down to the quay in the back of a van, the first mate or whoever was able, having to take the trawler out from the Bay. For ships with the same name, see, Operating base in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy. In 1758, the Plymouth and Portsmouth Fortifications Act provided the means to construct a permanent landward defence for the dockyard complex. Source Historic England Archive BB83/04456. On November 21st, 1918, as part of this dispersal, U 79 was handed over to the French Navy. The records staff at the Historic Environment Division would encourage divers to send them a short report on any diving undertaken on the HMS Drake wreck site to assist in monitoring the wreck (see Record Heritage). [29], In the mid-nineteenth century, all royal dockyards faced the challenge of responding to the advent first of steam power and then metal hulls. Displacing some 832 tons, U79 had a range of 8,000 nautical miles and a surface speed of 10.6 knots (submerged 7.9). Follow the link for more information, Links to additional information found online for the dive site, The approximate XY coordinates for the dive site in Decimel Degrees (DD). Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive. Public toilets are available in Church Bay between the harbour and the pub, near the playground. [60] The National Audit Office in 2019 stated that the costs of laid up storage of all nuclear submarines had reached 500 million,[61] and they represent a liability of 7.5 billion. We are now on Facebook. window over 3-light flat-headed window; right of the tower are A general description of the physical features of the dive site, The history of the wreck provided by the Senior Marine Archaeologist from the Department for Communities Historic Environment Division (only included for wreck sites), A description of the species composition at the site. A general view of the line of ships during the Naval Review at Spithead RMG P00022.tiff 4,800 3,497; 48.02 MB. [45] The site includes within it several listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments, most notably the Grade I listed East Ropery,[46] together with several other 18th-century buildings and structures associated with rope-making in the Yard, the covered slip (No. On high ground overlooking the rest of the yard he built a grand terrace of thirteen three-storey houses for the senior dockyard officers (the first known example in the country of a palace-front terrace); the commissioner was accommodated in the centre, and at each end of the terrace was a two-storey block of offices (one for the commissioner, the other for the Clerk of the Cheque). There were suggestions that to save her an attempt was going to be made to beach her in Church Bay, unfortunately, the degree of the list became critical and she was abandoned to capsize in eighteen metres of water a few hundred metres from the shore.

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