4 and No. Like this page to receive our updates. 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. The crippled Drake under the command of Captain S. H. Radcliffe was escorted into Church Bay by HMS Martin and other auxiliary ships where she was anchored. 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. 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. in towards dome with turned finial. to help with the costs of keeping the site running. The Drake currently lies capsized on its starboard side (the side of the torpedo strike) and is orientated SE-NW (bow pointing NW). The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. [56] Run by volunteers, it is only accessible for pre-booked tours, or on Naval Base open days. 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. Those unable to expand were closed; the rest underwent a transformation through growth and mechanisation. 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]. officers were housed in Howard and Seymour blocks (qqv) before He introduced a centralised storage area (the quadrangular Great Storehouse) alongside the basin, and a logical positioning of other buildings around the yard. By this time the surviving crew members had been transferred to other vessels in the vicinity. From a postcard by the Surrey Flying Services, of Croydon and Plymouth. This is probably the finest and most ambitious officers mess See HMS Drake, Plymouth on the map. 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, Rathlin Harbour has pontoons for around 40 boats. U79 survived the war and was interned on 11th November 1918 and subsequently surrendered - all the confiscated U-Boats were either scrapped or divided amongst the allies. Sir Francis Drake is now an enduring legacy in Devonport, as the naval base has been named HMS Drake.[1]. George Patton HMS Drake (d.21st Apr 1941), A/Able Sea. Salvage has been undertaken on the wreck of the Drake since 1918. 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. On October 2, 1917, HMS Drake was torpedoed by the German U-29, and her boiler room was flooded. This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest. The following transport lines have routes that pass near HMS Drake, Plymouth . May include summary, reasons for designation and history. From 1934 until the early 21st century the naval barracks on the site was named HMS Drake (it had previously been known as HMS Vivid after the base ship of the same name). English: Aerial image of HMS Drake, Devonport, Plymouth. HMS Drake 15:28, 10 NOV 2022. It proceeded to Church Bay where it anchored, but soon began to list, and eventually capsized and sank. Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area. 10thFeb 2023 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 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. Use of this data is subject to Terms and Conditions. Required fields are marked *. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. Samuel Whitmore Rogers HMS Drake (d.21st Apr 1941). 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. Your email address will not be published. An aerial photograph of the core of HMNB Devonport in 2005 with several ships alongside. Perform a free public GIS maps search, including geographic information systems, GIS services, and GIS databases. If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Follow VHF radio Channel 16 (156.8 MHz), the international distress frequency. Superintendent Engineer Major Monro Wilson, RE. Safety concerns on ageing facilities, stretched resources and increasing demand are blamed for the measures. The Morice Yard was a self-contained establishment with its own complex of workshops, workers, officers, offices and storehouses. moulded hoods above 1st-floor windows, apron entablature to The medical centre staff of HMS Drake are responsible for any self-caring personnel using either the patient's own living accommodation or one of the designated medical cabins. The nuclear-powered submarine HMSCourageous, used in the Falklands War, is preserved in North Yard as a museum ship, managed by the Heritage Centre. 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. [16], In 1895 the decision was taken to expand the Keyham Steam Yard to accommodate the increasing size of modern warships. 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. Royal Navy. Sand gobies Pomatochistus minutus, the burrowing anemone Cerianthus lloydii and the slender sea pen Virgularia mirabilis(a Northern Ireland Priority Species) occur on the adjacent sandy seabed. HMS Drake lies on a flat sandy seabed at a depth of between 15-19 metres. HMS Drake (1743) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743 and sold in 1748. [3] In the early 1970s the newly styled 'Fleet Maintenance Base' was itself commissioned as HMS Defiance; it remained so until 1994, when it was amalgamated into HMS Drake. with roudelled balustrades carried on moulded brackets. 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. Public access, i.e., diving on the site is permitted on a look but do not touch basis. were built for them here at Devonport, then Chatham and [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. 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). The Devonport Lines were a bastion fortification which consisted of an earthen rampart with a wide ditch and a glacis. similar to the fronts of the rear wings. 1988. [62], The Naval base at Devonport is still nicknamed "Guzz" (or, sometimes, "Guz") by sailors and marines. HMS Drake lies on a flat sandy seabed at a depth of between 15-19 metres. Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. 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. 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. User contributions are not fact checked and do not represent the official position of Historic England. 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 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). Having dismissed the Plymouth site as inadequate, he settled on the Hamoaze area which soon became known as Plymouth Dock, later renamed Devonport. [14] It is covered with a timber superstructure of 1814, a similarly rare and early survival of its type; indeed, only three such timber slip covers have survived in Britain, two of them at Devonport (the second of these, of similar vintage, stands over the former No.5 Slip; it was later converted to house the Scrieve Board, for full-size drafting of ship designs). All rights reserved. [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). However, Devonport retains a long-term role as the dedicated home of the amphibious fleet, survey vessels and half the frigate fleet. 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. 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! [48] As of 2016 the northern section of the South Yard (including the 18th-century dry docks, Nos. and moulded cornices. The wreck was sold in 1748. [65], Another explanation is that the name came from the Hindi word for a yard (36 inches), "guz", (also spelled "guzz", at the time) which entered the Oxford English Dictionary,[66] and Royal Navy usage,[67] in the late 19th century, as sailors used to regularly abbreviate "The Dockyard" to simply "The Yard", leading to the slang use of the Hindi word for the unit of measurement of the same name. These are: Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. 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. right angles to rear wings. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. 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. A third gate called New Passage was created in the 1780s, giving access to the Torpoint Ferry. Joseph William Paul Kreyling HMS Drake. [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. please She had left Norfolk, Virginia with convoy HH24 and was bound for Liverpool with cotton, steel and alcohol. Left of the tower is the [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. This is the first time. The wardroom block dates from this period. 655 & 656; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR Swindon: PLM 248-284).Listing NGR: SX4499756685. Other ships in her class were the Good Hope, King Alfred and Leviathan. 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 Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: Original Publication: Picture Post - 7161 - The Best And Worst Of British Cities 4 -. Rathlin Island SPA, Irish Wrecks Online Public toilets are available in Church Bay between the harbour and the pub, near the playground. Free car parking is available above the harbour and marina. Displacing some 832 tons, U79 had a range of 8,000 nautical miles and a surface speed of 10.6 knots (submerged 7.9). Morice Ordnance Yard remained independent from the dockyard until 1941, at which point it was integrated into the larger complex. Below Public Records. Charles Causley referred to Guz in one of his poems, "Song of the Dying Gunner A.A.1", published in 1951.[70]. A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. [31] In the 1970s the northern end of No. A pair of basins (89 acres each) were constructed: No. Send a distress alert followed by MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY and This is [boat name]. 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. each side with pilasters, cornices and wainscot, and the rear Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. We make riding to HMS Drake, Plymouth easy, which is why over 1.5 million users, including users in Plymouth, trust Moovit as the best app for . [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. He discarded the earlier three-sectioned hinged gate, which was labour-intensive in operation, and replaced it with the simpler and more mobile two-sectioned gate. 1st floor, moulded sill string to 2nd floor and moulded Paterson Alexander Grant. 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. to next stage and entablature below octagonal cupola with [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]. Ballycastle Harbour has a gated slipway (open during office hours) and pontoon berthing. A further, double-dock (i.e. 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. Books and journalsPevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 655-656. [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. glazing bars to top halves and original panelled doors. She was purchased in 1770 and briefly named HMS Drake. Lugano was a cargo steamer built in 1917 by Irvine's of Hartlepool and owed by the Gulf Line. The Wreck. - now Ruttonjee Hospital, RNH Trincomalee, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), HMS Queen Charlotte WWII land based gunnery school, Shore Rd., Ainsdale Southport, Lancashire. This includes the Navy's assault ships HMSAlbion and HMSBulwark. it was built. Rathlin MCZ Devonport has been the site of a number of leaks of nuclear waste associated with the nuclear submarines based there. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. [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). 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