Chatham Historic Dockyard: The Ropery

The Ropery in Chatham Dockyard is the only one of 4 original Royal Navy Ropeyards still in operation. Rope has … More

Chatham Historic Dockyard: HMS Gannet

A Sloop launched at Sheerness in Kent in August 1878 she saw service in the Pacific from 1879-1883 before … More

Built at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, HMS Cavalier was launched in March 1943. She served in the … More

The RNLI houses its collection of Lifeboats within one of the sheds at Chatham Dockyard. The collection contains an … More

The Dockyard had an extensive railway network

XE8 Midget Submarine Expunger built in 1944 for operations in the far east. It was sunk as an underwater target … More

Keith and I made a visit recently to the Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent. It is not exactly known when … More

John H Amos A steam paddle tug built on the Clyde for the Tees Conservancy. Its main function was towing … More

Named Norweigan, this locomotive arrived at KESR from Oslo in 1971. It was built in Trollhattan in 1919 and … More