For 'Heritage at Risk 2018'. Photographer's notes: No.7 Slipway, now Turks Boatyard, 'Erected in 1855 with a frame built out of wrought-iron with integral overhead travelling crane rails. Most of the submarines built at Chatham between 1907 and 1966 were constructed there, including HM Submarine Ocelot'; No.1 Smithery, 'Originally built in 1808 to cater for the increased use of iron in shipbuilding'; Mast House and Mould Loft, 'Built in 1753 - 58 The Mould Loft was a large drawing board used at the start of the shipbuilding process. Here shipwrights converted small scale ships plans into to full size lines scribed into the floor that showed the outside shape of the hull. The Mast Houses who where the mastmakers made masts and spars from fir logs that had been seasoned under water in the dockyards mast ponds. HMS Victory's lines were laid down in this building and her masts and spars were also made here too'; Admirals offices, 'Built as office accommodation for the Master Shipwright and other principal officers of the Dockyard, this building was designed by the Navy Board's architect, Edward Holl'; Number 3 Covered Slipway, 'Built in 1836, during the Napoleonic Wars. The Navy Board set about minimising the impact of dry rot on ships under construction by building covers over the all the building slips and docks used for shipbuilding'; Storehouse no.2 'Built in 1785 these two storehouses dominate Anchor Wharf and the largest storehouses ever built for the Royal Navy'.
This is part of the Volume: VF000004 Heritage at Risk; within the Series: EHC01/176 Heritage at Risk; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive
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Photographer: Redgrave, Christopher: Historic England
Dockyard
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