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. At the heart of his new dockyard, Dummer placed a stone-lined basin, giving access to what proved to be the first successful stepped stone dry dock in Europe. Source Historic England Archive BB83/04456. Having dismissed the Plymouth site as inadequate, he settled on the Hamoaze area which soon became known as Plymouth Dock, later renamed Devonport. Left of the tower is the Add to this record. Dived here recently? glazing bars to top halves and original panelled doors. [9], Provision of ships' armaments was not the responsibility of the Navy but of the independent Board of Ordnance, which already had a wharf and storage facility in the Mount Wise area of Plymouth. The largest naval base in Western Europe, Devonport has been supporting the Royal Navy since 1691. PLAN: central double-depth wardroom linked by 1st-floor Our Gunpowder was stored on site, which began to be a cause for concern among local residents (as was the older store in the Royal Citadel within the city of Plymouth). The wreck was sold in 1748. round-arched transomed 3-light stair window above a squat 1898 saw the barracks expand to accommodate a further 1,000 men. buildings at HMS Pembroke at Chatham and HMS Nelson at User contributions are not fact checked and do not represent the official position of Historic England. We are now on Facebook. The Drake currently lies capsized on its starboard side (the side of the torpedo strike) and is orientated SE-NW (bow pointing NW). The Royal Dockyard itself was opened in 1691 to the south of the main site and work started on the Barracks in 1880. The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. [35] This part of the site contains some fourteen listed buildings and structures. These can be converted to DMS or DDM by following the link below. English: Aerial image of HMS Drake, Devonport, Plymouth. moulded hoods above 1st-floor windows, apron entablature to An aerial photograph of the core of HMNB Devonport in 2005 with several ships alongside. [16], The dockyard suffered severe damage in a large-scale fire on 25 September 1840, it started in the North Dock on HMSTalavera and Imogene were completely gutted, threatened HMSMinden, and spread to nearby buildings and equipment. 1898-1902, PO (d.21st April 1941). and forming the centrepiece of a complete planned group. 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. These innovations also allowed rapid erection of staging and greater workforce mobility. On 30 December 1970, Vice-Admiral J R McKaig was appointed as Port Admiral, His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport, and Flag Officer, Plymouth. Listed on the National Heritage List for England. You are free: to share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix - to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. external end stacks, axial and lateral stacks, all with panels The wreckage is covered in dense kelp and mixed red algae. All but two sailors working in the boiler room that day were killed. Read the Enriching the List Terms and Conditions. 2, 3 & 4)[49][50][51] was being redeveloped in phases,[52] with a marketing strategy focused on 'the development of marine industries and the high growth area of marine science and technology';[53] it has been renamed Oceansgate. Public toilets are available in Church Bay between the harbour and the pub, near the playground. 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. There remains intact and recognisable structural remains; for example, an improved Martin Type anchor and some visible chain to the west of the main wreckage (bow end); the partially buried remains of the ram bow; a praravane skeg used for mine clearance; parts of the armour belt hull; articulated elements of the stern including upright frames and horizontal beams; a hawse hole; steering gear and rudder (with fitting and machinery for turning the rudder); a probable BL 6-inch (152mm) MK VII gun; open internal spaces and bulkheads and a port propeller shaft (near SW edge of wreckage). photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. [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. The now privatised maintenance facilities are operated by Babcock International Group, who took over the previous owner Devonport Management Limited (DML) in 2007. 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. HMS Drake (1740) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1740 and wrecked in 1742. The dockyard employs 2,500 service personnel and civilians, supports circa 400 local firms and contributes approximately 10% to the income of Plymouth. 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. In 2009 the Ministry of Defence announced the conclusion of a long-running review of the long-term role of three naval bases. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 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. [13] One slipway (1774) survives unaltered from this period (Slip No.1): a rare survival. Buildings Scheduled monuments Parks and gardens Battlefields Shipwrecks. Information drawn from Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland (HERoNI), Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division. [28], In contrast to South Yard, which fared badly in the Blitz, most of the original buildings survive at Morice Yard, enclosed behind their contemporary boundary wall; over a dozen of these are listed. 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. 5 Basin was converted to serve as a new Fleet Maintenance Base, to be built alongside a Submarine Refit Complex for nuclear submarines; an 80-ton cantilever crane, one of the largest in western Europe, was installed to lift nuclear cores from submarines in newly built adjacent dry docks. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Sailors lived in hulks until the first barracks document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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). Grade II Listed Building: Hms Drake Main Gateway With Gate Pier Arches, Gates, Flanking Walls And Railings. [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). This article is about the Royal Navy base in Plymouth, England. Required fields are marked *. In 1894 a contingent of sixty Royal Navy homing pigeons was accommodated on the site. Shortly afterwards HMS Brisk made a sweep through the Sound and was hit by either torpedo or ran into a mine which struck amidships causing a catastrophic explosion. DML had been running the Dockyard since privatisation in 1987.[2]. She was renamed HMS Resolution in 1771 and served James Cook on his second and third voyages of discovery in the Pacific. By 1907 Keyham, now renamed the North Yard, had more than doubled in size with the addition of No. The wardroom block dates from this period. Rathlin Island SPA, Irish Wrecks Online Superintendent Engineer Major Monro Wilson, RE. [8] A chapel was built in 1700, alongside the Porter's Lodge at the main gate[9] (it was destroyed by a fire in 1799). One suggestion is that this originates from the word guzzle (to eat or drink greedily), which is likely to refer to the eating of cream teas, a West Country delicacy and, therefore, one with strong connections to the area around Plymouth. Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive. [71] The traditional shout of "Oggy Oggy Oggy" was used to cheer on the Devonport team in the Navy's field gun competition. central dining room with panelled walls, large fireplaces with Estimates for the damage were put at 150,000 in the values of the day, and would have totalled 500,000 had the fire not been contained by demolishing several surrounding buildings. In 1758, the Plymouth and Portsmouth Fortifications Act provided the means to construct a permanent landward defence for the dockyard complex. 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. 3 Basin was the frontispiece to a huge integrated manufacturing complex. HM Naval Base Devonport is the home port of the Devonport Flotilla which includes the Trafalgar-class submarines. From a postcard by the Surrey Flying Services, of Croydon and Plymouth. Search over 400,000 listed places Overview Official List Entry Comments and Photos Previous Overview Next Comments and Photos 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. Devonport has been the site of a number of leaks of nuclear waste associated with the nuclear submarines based there. 1st floor, moulded sill string to 2nd floor and moulded These observations were further verified by divers from DAERAs Marine Scientific Dive Team in 2016. Records of HMS Drake from other sources. The ship type is rare and represents an intermediate design of armoured cruiser that quickly became obsolete. It was here that Dummer built his groundbreaking stone dry dock (completely rebuilt in the 1840s). For the Royal New Zealand Navy base in Auckland, New Zealand, see, "HMS Drake (shore establishment)" redirects here. HMS "DRAKE" Old aerial view of the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport. In 1860 the main dockyards' policing was also transferred to the new dockyard divisions of the Metropolitan Police, in Devonport's case No. The last of the Trafalgar class submarines, she will probably serve until at least 2025. Media in category "HMS Drake (ship, 1901)" The following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total. The wardroom block dates from this period. Grade II Listed Building: Hms Drake Main Gateway With Gate Pier Arches, Gates, Flanking Walls And Railings. Use our map search to find more listed places. List of ships with the same or similar names, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Drake&oldid=1128898823, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 22 December 2022, at 15:16. It proceeded to Church Bay where it anchored, but soon began to list, and eventually capsized and sank. The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. [18], Despite significant damage during the blitz, the South Yard still contains four scheduled monuments and over thirty listed buildings and structures[19] (though some of these have been allowed to fall into a derelict state in recent years: the 18th-century South Sawmills and South Smithery are both on the Heritage at Risk Register). Salvage has been undertaken on the wreck of the Drake since 1918. More Species of interest are highlighted. The barracks buildings are now named the Fleet Accommodation Centre. Other fronts have tripartite entrances and 1st-floor balconies The dockyard began in what is now known as the South Yard area of Devonport. 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, 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. Helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public. [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]. officers were housed in Howard and Seymour blocks (qqv) before to next stage and entablature below octagonal cupola with Do you have any photos of this dive site you would like to contribute? [31] In the 1970s the northern end of No. Where the old ropehouse had stood a short canal known as the Camber was laid out, terminating in a boat basin with a boathouse. Plymouth Naval Base Museum opened in 1969 following an appeal from the office of the Admiral-superintendent for items of memorabilia and was housed in the Dockyard Fire Station. George Patton HMS Drake (d.21st Apr 1941), A/Able Sea. In just under three centuries, over 300 vessels were built at Devonport, the last being HMS Scylla in 1971.[12]. Range was 2,000 miles at 13 knots. The lines ran from Morice Yard on the River Tamar, enclosing the whole dockyard and town, finally meeting the river again at Stonehouse Pool, a total distance of 2,000 yards (1,800 metres). Berthing fees apply for both Rathlin and Ballycastle Harbour Office; for use of either, contact the Ballycastle Harbour Office: 02820768525 / 07803505984. 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. They were responsible for all the civilian support services operated by the dockyard departments. triangular parapet pediment to each entrance bay is a tall Paterson Alexander Grant. 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 . Lugano was a cargo steamer built in 1917 by Irvine's of Hartlepool and owed by the Gulf Line. From its original 17th-century site, the dockyard expanded in stages (first to the south and then progressively northwards) over the next .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+12 centuries. It remained in use until it was destroyed in the Plymouth Blitz; the same fate befell several other buildings of the 18th and early 19th century, including the long and prominent pedimented workshop with its central clocktower, built to accommodate a range of woodworkers and craftsmen, the adjacent pedimented dockyard offices and Edward Holl's replacement Dockyard Church of 1814. May include summary, reasons for designation and history. His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth) and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy. 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. Learn how your comment data is processed. Richmond becomes a Devonport ship on completion of her refit. 1898 saw the barracks expand to accommodate a further 1,000 men. [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. This includes the Navy's assault ships HMSAlbion and HMSBulwark. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. 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. Satellite and aerial maps of HMS Drake with nearby locations Toggle Map History of this Location The Royal Navy has been associated with Plymouth and Devonport since before the 1500s. Free public toilets are available in the visitor information office above the harbour. 4 Slip having been recently refurbished for use with landing craft. The Morice Yard was a self-contained establishment with its own complex of workshops, workers, officers, offices and storehouses. on an English barracks, executed in a bold Free Style manner, List Entry HMS DRAKE WARDROOM, OFFICERS QUARTERS AND MESS HMS DRAKE WARDROOM, OFFICERS QUARTERS AND MESS, SALTASH ROAD Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Books and journalsPevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 655-656. 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). Charles Causley referred to Guz in one of his poems, "Song of the Dying Gunner A.A.1", published in 1951.[70]. Nearby public transportation stops & stations: 170 ft HMS Drake. On November 21st, 1918, as part of this dispersal, U 79 was handed over to the French Navy. HMS Brisk was built in 1910, a type H (Acorn) destroyer with a top speed of 27 knots. The Wreck. This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest. 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