Three masts removed from a bomb-laden shipwreck in the Thames Estuary have been successfully taken to a maritime museum. The ...

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 ...

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For four centuries, the Dockyard at Chatham built ships for the Royal Navy and her allies. Today it’s a massive museum, with ships from the age of steam, WWII and the Cold War. Here’s the full tour.

Developers have revealed plans which would complete a 30-year redevelopment of a former Royal Navy dockyard. The scheme at Chatham Historic Dockyard would see hundreds of new homes, as well as shops ...

Do you remember Chatham Naval Dockyard when it was in its prime? Did you, or someone in your family, work there on the ships and submarines? This message board is now closed. Thay you for your ...

A Kent distillery has created a Navy strength gin to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. “Recognition ‘82” has been made by the Copper Rivet Distillery based at Chatham Dockyard, ...

A historic Kent dockyard with 100 buildings where Bridgerton and Call the Midwife were filmed is just 50 minutes away from south east London. Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent, spanning 80 acres with ...

Between its opening under Elizabeth I in 1567 and its closure under her namesake in 1984, Chatham Dockyard, on the Medway in Kent, delivered more than 500 of the ships that built the British Empire.

In June 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, a Dutch fleet entered the Thames estuary and pushed up the River Medway toward Chatham Dockyard, one of England’s most important naval bases. Led by ...

A report examining the economic impact of one of the county’s premier tourist attractions has estimated it generates almost £28 million to the local economy. Published to coincide with English Tourism ...

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