BBC

Chatham Dockyard: Lasting impact three decades on

Terry Lewis (top left), Eileen Griffin (centre) and Alex Routen (bottom) have fond memories of the dockyard The closure of Chatham Dockyard on 31 March 1984 brought to an end more than 400 years of ...
BBC

Chatham Dockyard: Reinvention of site 40 years after closure

The reverberations from the closure of one of the UK's last royal shipyards 40 years ago are still being felt. On 31 March 1984 more than 7,000 skilled workers at Chatham Dockyard lost their jobs, as ...
The Royal Gazette

Evolution of Dockyard is the focus of a new book

A book tracing the development of Dockyard is in the works by the National Museum of Bermuda’s publishing arm. Bermuda Sentinel: The Royal Naval Base 1795 to 1950 written by Jonathan Coad, a naval ...
Travel Weekly

There's plenty to see and do at Bermuda's Royal Naval Dockyard

Cannons at the Victualling Yard in the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda's West End. Photo Credit: Omar Perez Cruisers just arriving in port may not want to immediately hail a cab or other mode of ...
BBC

The closure of Sheerness dockyard 50 years on

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. In 1958 the government announced the closure of Sheerness dockyard, with the loss of 2,500 jobs. Two ...