Devonport serves as headquarters for the Flag Officer Sea Training, which is responsible for the training of all the ships of the Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, along with many from foreign naval services. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area. Located within HMS Drake's Haven and inside the naval base's Wyvern Gym . to next stage and entablature below octagonal cupola with 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 . [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. [36], Ships based at the port are known as the Devonport Flotilla. Submarine U79 was a Class: UE, Type: Ocean-going mine-laying submarine and was launched on 9th April, 1916, she was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on May 25th, 1916. The Morice Yard was a self-contained establishment with its own complex of workshops, workers, officers, offices and storehouses. A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. More buildings were added in the early years of the twentieth century, including St Nicholas's Church. The largest naval base in Western Europe,[1] HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth, England. The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. 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. HMS Drake 1909 LOC det 4a19534 (uncropped, full size).jpg 9,184 7,360; 9.52 MB. In 1832 the Navy Board was abolished, everything except the gun wharves were brought under the direct control of the Admiralty. . The Scrieve Board (Project Managed by PDM) currently serves as a museum store. In an emergency call 999 or 112 and ask for the coastguard. [16] To open up the site, the old ropehouse was demolished and a new rope-making complex built alongside the east perimeter wall of the expanded site (where it still survives in part, albeit rebuilt following a fire in 1812). Rathlin Harbour has pontoons for around 40 boats. Devonport has been the site of a number of leaks of nuclear waste associated with the nuclear submarines based there. Joe Kreyling served with the royal Navy in the Mediterranean between 1943-45, taking part in the allied invasions of Sicily and mainland Italy. HISTORY: part of the second phase of the barracks, the Joseph William Paul Kreyling HMS Drake. 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. 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. 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. The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. 4 Slip having been recently refurbished for use with landing craft. Stoker Sydney Green HMS Drake (d.18th Jan 1944), OS J Metcalfe HMS Drake (d.5th May 1941), PO. Send a distress alert followed by MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY and This is [boat name]. 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[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. - HMS Drake during the Second World War -. Shortly after the men from HMS "Royal Adelaide" entered the newly built Royal Naval Barracks at Keyham it took the name of HMS "Vivid", the Commander-in-Chief's yacht. Follow the link for more information, Links to additional information found online for the dive site, The approximate XY coordinates for the dive site in Decimel Degrees (DD). Formerly Royal Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment and Support. The ship type is rare and represents an intermediate design of armoured cruiser that quickly became obsolete. HMS Drake 15:28, 10 NOV 2022. open well stair with moulded balusters, decorated mess rooms triangular parapet pediment to each entrance bay is a tall Royal Naval HMNB Devonport dedicates rooms for mums and babies to relax in. HMS Drake (1743) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743 and sold in 1748. They were responsible for all the civilian support services operated by the dockyard departments. Armaments included - two primary 4 inch (QF) guns, two secondary 3-inch QF guns and two 21 inch torpedo tubes.S.S. buildings at HMS Pembroke at Chatham and HMS Nelson at Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment. Do you have any additional information for this dive site you would like to contribute? HMS Drake (1740) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1740 and wrecked in 1742. George Patton HMS Drake (d.21st Apr 1941), A/Able Sea. 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. Both the Brisk and Lugano lie within 3km of each other - although there is no evidence to say that U79 torpedoed HMS Brisk, the proximity of the two attacks would suggest that she may have lay in wait and done so. Public toilets are available in Church Bay between the harbour and the pub, near the playground. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2023. The Drakes position is marked with a Commissioners of Irish Lights South Cardinal Buoy (although the buoy is currently situated to the SE of the wreck, off its stern). HMNB Devonport The largest naval base in Western Europe, Devonport has been supporting the Royal Navy since 1691. Portsmouth. 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. 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. The prominent clock tower was built in 1896, containing a clock and bell by Gillett & Johnston; it initially functioned as a semaphore tower. The southern boundary of his yard was formed by a 'double' rope-house (combining the previously separate tasks of spinning and laying within a single building); the upper floor was used for the repair of sails and a separate rigging house stood nearby. The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. The barracks buildings are now named the Fleet Accommodation Centre. Her armaments included two primary 9.2-inch centre line turrets, sixteen secondary 6-inch single barbettes, twelve auxiliary twelve pounders, three auxiliary three pounders and two eighteen-inch submerged torpedo tubes. round-arched transomed 3-light stair window above a squat Date of Loss 02/10/1917. 3 Division, which remained in that role until 1934. 1898-1902, HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. 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. [35] This part of the site contains some fourteen listed buildings and structures. Incidentally, in August, 1914 shortly after the declaration of war, she escorted the Harland & Wolff (Belfast) built 'Olympic' (sister ship of the Titanic) into Liverpool. [33], In 2011 the MOD sold the freehold of the North Yard to the Dockyard operator, Babcock; the site includes six listed buildings and structures, among them the Grade I listed Quadrangle.[34]. Get directions now. 1898 saw the barracks expand to accommodate a further 1,000 men. The name HMS Drake and its command structure has been extended to cover the entire base. The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. Want to know what life was like during the War? The dockyard followed suit twenty years later, becoming Devonport Royal Dockyard. 655 & 656; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR Swindon: PLM 248-284).Listing NGR: SX4499756685. 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. The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and the free to access part of the website is funded by donations from our visitors. Using an old browser means that some parts of our website might not work correctly. [37], In changes to base porting arrangements announced in November 2017, HM Ships Argyll, Monmouth and Montrose were to join the Portsmouth Flotilla (however, Monmouth retired in 2021 and Montrose is scheduled to decommission in 2023 with her return from the Persian Gulf); HM Ships Westminster, Richmond, Kent and St Albans are moving in the opposite direction, to Devonport. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Armaments included - two primary 4 inch (QF) guns, two secondary 3-inch QF guns and two 21 inch torpedo tubes.S.S. Licence number 102006.006. Officer's quarters and wardroom blocks. The wardroom block dates from this period. There were four bastions, Marlborough Bastion to the north, Granby Bastion to the north-east, Stoke Bastion to the east and George Bastion to the south east. [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. [19], The Royal Navy Dockyard consists of fourteen dry docks (docks numbered 1 to 15, but there is no 13 Dock),[1] four miles (6km) of waterfront, twenty-five tidal berths, five basins and an area of 650 acres (2.6km2). Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. [9], Before the expansion could begin, a rocky hillside to the south had to be cut away; the rubble was used to reclaim the mudflats ready for building. The remains of the trawler partially overlays the Drake near its bow end. Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Since then, the museum has expanded and now occupies, in addition, the 18th-century Pay Office[57] and Porter's Lodge. 3-light window. The Lugano and the Brisk were both torpedoed by U-boats on the same day. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. When navigating within Ballycastle or Rathlin Harbour, use VHF Channel 80. Read the Enriching the List Terms and Conditions. [19] On higher ground behind the wharf itself is a contemporary terrace of houses for officers (1720), built from stone rubble excavated during the yard's construction.[13]. All blocks have The deep-water access it offers has made the site desirable for manufacturers of 'superyachts' and in 2012 Princess Yachts acquired the freehold to 20 acres (0.081km2) at the southern end, with a view to building a construction facility. staircase; 2 central windows above, then cornice linked to STYLE: Free Classical. Members who served with HMS Drake Welcome to Forces Reunited the place where you can find information and friends from HMS Drake . [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). HMS Drake lies on a flat sandy seabed at a depth of between 15-19 metres. Other fronts have tripartite entrances and 1st-floor balconies [13] One slipway (1774) survives unaltered from this period (Slip No.1): a rare survival. with careful attention to detail and compositional quality, Environmental and Historical Designations: A list of any environmental or historical designations attributed to the site, or overlapping it. each side with pilasters, cornices and wainscot, and the rear Range was 2,000 miles at 13 knots. 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. round arches and Ionic columns plus further entablature sloped List entry 1386370. : A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy, Barrie H. 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HMS DRAKE, DRAKE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, SALTASH ROAD Listed on the National Heritage List for England. 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! 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. HMS Brisk was built in 1910, a type H (Acorn) destroyer with a top speed of 27 knots. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: Morice Ordnance Yard remained independent from the dockyard until 1941, at which point it was integrated into the larger complex. The base employs 2,500 Service personnel and civilians, supports . Portsmouth. By 1907 Keyham, now renamed the North Yard, had more than doubled in size with the addition of No. A third gate called New Passage was created in the 1780s, giving access to the Torpoint Ferry. 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. Salvage has been undertaken on the wreck of the Drake since 1918. 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. Ballycastle/Rathlin Harbour Office No. 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). Add a Name to this List Descriptive location referring to nearest landfall i.e. Use our map search to find more listed places. [10], Most of these buildings and structures were rebuilt over ensuing years, including Dummer's original basin and dry dock (today known as No. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. Devonport. 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). Like this page to receive our updates. Search over 400,000 listed places Overview Official List Entry Comments and Photos Previous Overview Next Comments and Photos Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Public Records. Public access, i.e., diving on the site is permitted on a look but do not touch basis. Tetrastyle Ionic porch is approached by a double L-plan Buildings Scheduled monuments Parks and gardens Battlefields Shipwrecks. (d.1st Jan 1944), Robins Ernest William. Do you have any photos of this dive site you would like to contribute? Then let other divers know about this site from your experience! public car parking and toilets, slipways etc, Anecdotal information on possible hazards at the site for divers and snorkellers. 740-1/4/175 HMS Drake: Wardroom, Officer's After the attack and as normal procedure, the convoy dispersed, the remaining naval and auxiliary escorts including the HMS Brisk, a type H (Acorn) destroyer were deployed to follow up on the dispersed ships, some through Rathlin Sound and others in the North Channel. Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. were built for them here at Devonport, then Chatham and Left of the tower is the A "tiddy oggy" is naval slang for a Cornish Pasty and which was once the nickname for a sailor born and bred in Devonport. 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. By this time the surviving crew members had been transferred to other vessels in the vicinity. Like their famous predecessor, Francis Drake, these sailors, from HMS 'Drake', find time for a game of bowls on Plymouth Ho before reporting for duty. In my innocence, I could never figure out why they forgot to put those supplies onboard in Fleetwood. [36] It is the base for HMS Triumph, one of two remainingTrafalgar-class nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarines. A general view of the line of ships during the Naval Review at Spithead RMG P00022.tiff 4,800 3,497; 48.02 MB. 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. 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). 2 Slip and moored alongside the quay wall". Below 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. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. 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. - now Ruttonjee Hospital, RNH Trincomalee, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), HMS Queen Charlotte WWII land based gunnery school, Shore Rd., Ainsdale Southport, Lancashire. Scheduled Monument HMS Drake 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). [48] As of 2016 the northern section of the South Yard (including the 18th-century dry docks, Nos. Paterson Alexander Grant. Berthing fees apply for both Rathlin and Ballycastle Harbour Office; for use of either, contact the Ballycastle Harbour Office: 02820768525 / 07803505984. passages on 2-span bridges to double-depth quarters blocks at Source Historic England Archive BB98/02592. external end stacks, axial and lateral stacks, all with panels In 1860 the main dockyards' policing was also transferred to the new dockyard divisions of the Metropolitan Police, in Devonport's case No. The wreck is well broken up into large metal plates, therefore be mindful of sharp edges. [4], In 1588, the ships of the English Navy set sail for the Spanish Armada through the mouth of the River Plym, thereby establishing the military presence in Plymouth. 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. Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. DML had been running the Dockyard since privatisation in 1987.[2]. There are many local stories of skipper's being carried out of pubs by the crew and taken down to the quay in the back of a van, the first mate or whoever was able, having to take the trawler out from the Bay. Nearby public transportation stops & stations: 170 ft HMS Drake. staircase bay with tall double-transomed 3-light round-arched The smithery with its fire and forge was positioned to the north, safely separate from the other buildings. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. 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. [56] Run by volunteers, it is only accessible for pre-booked tours, or on Naval Base open days. There were originally two gates in the lines, the Stoke Barrier at the end of Fore Street and the Stonehouse Barrier. [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. 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