[35] This part of the site contains some fourteen listed buildings and structures. [45] The site includes within it several listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments, most notably the Grade I listed East Ropery,[46] together with several other 18th-century buildings and structures associated with rope-making in the Yard, the covered slip (No. and moulded cornices. A general description of the physical features of the dive site, The history of the wreck provided by the Senior Marine Archaeologist from the Department for Communities Historic Environment Division (only included for wreck sites), A description of the species composition at the site. The wreckage is covered in dense kelp and mixed red algae. Joseph Gerrard Poland HMS Eaglet, Coder John Richard Robertson HMS Drake, Ch. [2], In 1880 a Royal Naval Engineering College was established at Keyham, housed in a new building just outside the dockyard wall alongside the Quadrangle where students (who joined at 15 years of age) gained hands-on experience of the latest naval engineering techniques. Despite the obvious damage sustained divers from Wessex Archaeology were able to discern in 2006 that there remains not only a main body of wreckage in reasonable condition but intact and recognisable structural remains. Other ships in her class were the Good Hope, King Alfred and Leviathan. [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]. [48] As of 2016 the northern section of the South Yard (including the 18th-century dry docks, Nos. [60] The National Audit Office in 2019 stated that the costs of laid up storage of all nuclear submarines had reached 500 million,[61] and they represent a liability of 7.5 billion. Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. A group of volunteers from The Friends of Balaam's Wood Local Nature Reserve clearing brambles at Gannow Green Moated Site, New Frankley in Birmingham, Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Ballycastle/Rathlin Harbour Office No. Add to this record. (d.1st Jan 1944), Robins Ernest William. 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. Construction of an onshore barracks, just north-east of the North Yard, was completed in 1889 with accommodation for 2,500; sailors and officers moved in during June of that year. HMS Drake or Drake I, II III or IV appears on sailors records as their home base, they may not have physically been at Devonport between the dates shown as any time they are not allocated to another ship's crew, they revert to HMS Drake, this may happen while they are port awaiting their next ship or in transit on another ship but not part of the ship's crew. Devonport would no longer be used as a base for attack submarines after these moved to Faslane by 2017, and the Type 45 destroyers are based at Portsmouth. to help with the costs of keeping the site running. An aerial photograph of the core of HMNB Devonport in 2005 with several ships alongside. The Drake, having sustained some damage to the steering, and taking water, headed for Church Bay, but collided with the cargo ship Mendip Range as it rounded Rue Point. A map of all dive centres is provided under Go Diving. 2 Slip and moored alongside the quay wall". HMS Drake (1743) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743 and sold in 1748. 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. Another memorable story is that of a local landlord being invited by the skipper and crew to continue the evening's session aboard ship, he eventually came round on his way to Iceland - the trawler made a detour and dropped him off on the Faroes. The vast site covers more than 650 acres and has 15 dry docks, four miles of waterfront, 25 tidal berths and five basins. A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. [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. The Royal Dockyard itself was opened in 1691 to the south of the main site and work started on the Barracks in 1880. The Drake currently lies capsized on its starboard side (the side of the torpedo strike) and is orientated SE-NW (bow pointing NW). buildings at HMS Pembroke at Chatham and HMS Nelson at paired sashes, then next bays on either side have tall sashes. The trawler is severely broken up with its bow lying in the wreckage of the Drake. Armaments included - two primary 4 inch (QF) guns, two secondary 3-inch QF guns and two 21 inch torpedo tubes.S.S. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. 3 Basin was the frontispiece to a huge integrated manufacturing complex. HMS "DRAKE" Old aerial view of the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport. 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. Source Historic England Archive BB83/04456. These can be converted to DMS or DDM by following the link below. The Lugano and the Brisk were both torpedoed by U-boats on the same day. The docks Dummer designed were stronger with more secure foundations and stepped sides that made it easier for men to work beneath the hull of a docked vessel. Patients using these may have an infectious disease which may need a degree of isolation or an acute illness needing the oversight of a clinician. Devonport - arrive at DRAKE main gate (which is not Camels Head Gate nor Albert Gate). 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. [9] On the New Ground to the south a new smithery was constructed, in 1776, containing 48 forges; though subsequently rebuilt it too still stands, the earliest surviving smithery in any royal dockyard. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 261046 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible. On 30 December 1690, a contract was let for a dockyard to be built: the start of Plymouth (later Devonport) Royal Dockyard. For any other issue or if you need help, please email: Our website works best with the latest version of the browsers below, unfortunately your browser is not supported. The building still stands, and is Grade I listed; architectural detailing was by Sir Charles Barry. Kevin Robertson & Leslie Oppitz. round arches and Ionic columns plus further entablature sloped Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team, Bombed library in Holland House, Kensington. 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. She had left Norfolk, Virginia with convoy HH24 and was bound for Liverpool with cotton, steel and alcohol. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships. Boat traffic between Ballycastle and Rathlin. [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. [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. passages on 2-span bridges to double-depth quarters blocks at Free public toilets are available in the visitor information office above the harbour. All but two sailors working in the boiler room that day were killed. 1988. In an emergency call 999 or 112 and ask for the coastguard. If so it would have been a major achievement for a U-Boat Captain to claim a Cruiser, Destroyer and a 2,350-ton merchant ship within a few hours of each. the Olympic had sailed empty from New York, HMS Essex escorted her for part of the crossing and she was met by the Drake in the Northern Approaches and escorted to port. Do you have any additional information for this dive site you would like to contribute? Records of HMS Drake from other sources. Public access, i.e., diving on the site is permitted on a look but do not touch basis. All rights reserved. Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). He introduced a centralised storage area (the quadrangular Great Storehouse) alongside the basin, and a logical positioning of other buildings around the yard. This broke the ship in two, the bow section sank in the Sound and the stern section was eventually towed into Londonderry, the explosion killed thirty-one seamen. HMS Drake had lost the use of its steam steering gear in the attack and had to try to steer using only propellers, until this could be repaired. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small Royal Naval HMNB Devonport dedicates rooms for mums and babies to relax in. 1898 saw the barracks expand to accommodate a further 1,000 men. Follow VHF radio Channel 16 (156.8 MHz), the international distress frequency. 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. Required fields are marked *. 655 & 656; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR Swindon: PLM 248-284).Listing NGR: SX4499756685. Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. HMS Drake 15:28, 10 NOV 2022. 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. Sailors lived in hulks until the first barracks Many stories surround the sinking and why she hit the wreck, a relative of mine listened to the May Day call on his wireless set in Ballintoy, the Portrush lifeboat came to her assistance and took the crew off with no casualties. Royal Navy. Then let other divers know about this site from your experience! English: Aerial image of HMS Drake, Devonport, Plymouth. The nuclear submarine refit base was put into special measures in 2013 by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and it could be 2020 before enhanced monitoring ceases. [36] It is the base for HMS Triumph, one of two remainingTrafalgar-class nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarines. By boat from Rathlin or Ballycastle Harbour. 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The site is comprised of the metal wreck of the Drake and a further metal wreck of a 52m Fleetwood fishing trawler, the Ella Hewett that struck and sunk atop the Drake in 1962. For the Royal New Zealand Navy base in Auckland, New Zealand, see, "HMS Drake (shore establishment)" redirects here. It also serves as home port to most of the hydrographic surveying fleet of the Royal Navy and eight Type 23 frigates as of 2021. On 5 September 1971, all Flag Officers of the Royal Navy holding positions of Admiral Superintendents at Royal Dockyards were restyled as Port Admirals.[80]. Your email address will not be published. Charles Causley referred to Guz in one of his poems, "Song of the Dying Gunner A.A.1", published in 1951.[70]. [56] Run by volunteers, it is only accessible for pre-booked tours, or on Naval Base open days. it was built. INTERIOR: wardroom has a richly-decorated interior with a fine This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. painted panels; axial corridor with bedrooms on upper floors. The nuclear-powered submarine HMSCourageous, used in the Falklands War, is preserved in North Yard as a museum ship, managed by the Heritage Centre. [16], In 1895 the decision was taken to expand the Keyham Steam Yard to accommodate the increasing size of modern warships. round-arched transomed 3-light stair window above a squat [20][21] In the space between the new slips and the new ropehouse, south of the boat pond, was a sizeable mast pond, flanked by mast-houses. [13] The three dry docks were rebuilt, expanded and covered over in the 1970s to serve as the Frigate Refit Centre. Formerly Royal Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment and Support. See HMS Drake, Plymouth on the map. In 1689 Prince William of Orange became William III and almost immediately he required the building of a new Royal Dockyard west of Portsmouth. They were responsible for all the civilian support services operated by the dockyard departments. Tetrastyle Ionic porch is approached by a double L-plan Superintendent Engineer Major Monro Wilson, RE. staircase bay with tall double-transomed 3-light round-arched More buildings were added in the early years of the twentieth century, including St Nicholas's Church. each side with pilasters, cornices and wainscot, and the rear 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. Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Military units and formations of the United Kingdom, NATO headquarters Allied Forces Southern Europe, http://www.tristandc.com/history1942-1961.php, http://www.birnbeckpier.org/birnbeck_pier_history.php, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/18/a8174018.shtml, Signal! On November 21st, 1918, as part of this dispersal, U 79 was handed over to the French Navy. HMS Drake was a 12-gun sloop launched as the civilian Marquis of Granby. On 2nd October 1917 HMS Drake had just finished escort duties for convoy HH24 from America. HMS Drake (1740) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1740 and wrecked in 1742. [6] Previously the Navy Board had relied upon timber as the major building material for dry docks, which resulted in high maintenance costs and was also a fire risk. On 30 December 1970, Vice-Admiral J R McKaig was appointed as Port Admiral, His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport, and Flag Officer, Plymouth. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public. Read the Enriching the List Terms and Conditions. She was purchased in 1770 and briefly named HMS Drake. The Drake has been extensively damaged both by the original torpedo attack on the vessel, the wrecking of the Ella Hewett and the subsequent dispersal of both wrecks with explosives in the 1970s by divers from the Scottish and Northern Ireland Bomb and Mine Disposal Team. HMS Drake Learning & Development Hub Bldg B046 (West) Upper Battery Road HMS Drake PLYMOUTH PL2 2BG Mil: 9375 65362 HMNB Clyde - LDO (North) HMNB Clyde Learning & Development Hub Bldg 1320 HMNB Clyde HELENSBURGH G84 8HL Mil: 93255 3641 HMS Sultan HMS Sultan Learning & Development Hub Raven Building HMS Sultan Military Road GOSPORT PO12 3BY In 2014 it was announced, as part of a 'City Deal' regeneration agreement, that the South Yard would be 'unlocked' with a view to it becoming a 'marine industries hub'. [11] The terrace survived into the 20th century, but was largely destroyed in the Blitz along with several others of Devonport's historic buildings. Use our map search to find more listed places. [71] The traditional shout of "Oggy Oggy Oggy" was used to cheer on the Devonport team in the Navy's field gun competition. officers were housed in Howard and Seymour blocks (qqv) before 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. Joe Kreyling served with the royal Navy in the Mediterranean between 1943-45, taking part in the allied invasions of Sicily and mainland Italy. Add a Name to this List [5] Having selected the location, Dummer was given responsibility for designing and building the new yard. 1 Slip) and the 'King's Hill Gazebo', built to commemorate a visit by King George III.[47]. floor, otherwise dressed limestone brought to course and with Rathlin Island SPA, Irish Wrecks Online on an English barracks, executed in a bold Free Style manner, 2 Basin gave access to three large dry-docks, while No. These innovations also allowed rapid erection of staging and greater workforce mobility. This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. Gross weight: 2,350 ton. Up until 1832 the Plymouth Royal Dockyard, was administered by a Commissioner of the Navy on behalf of the Navy Board in London included:[75][76][77], By An Order in Council dated 27 June 1832 the role of the commissioner was replaced by an admiral-superintendent.[78]. 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. 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). Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment. Plymouth Drake Sea Cadets & Royal Marine Cadets SO59 Bonaventure House South Yard, just down the road from HMS Vivid and the Naval Hertridge centre 0.00 Miles Away; Serco Integrated Services Hmnb Devonport Bldg So15 0.00 Miles Away; Services Sound & Vision Corporation Frobisher Block 0.01 Miles Away; James Fisher Rumic Building S146 0.01 Miles Away There were originally two gates in the lines, the Stoke Barrier at the end of Fore Street and the Stonehouse Barrier. [63] Another explanation advanced is that "GUZZ" was the radio call sign for the nearby Admiralty wireless station (which was GZX) at Devil's Point,[64] though this is disputed and has recently been disproved by reference to actual wireless telegraphy callsigns in existence over the past century. Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. Address: HM Naval Base, Plymouth, United Kingdom, PL2 2BG. right angles to rear wings. : A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy, Barrie H. 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