C is for Chatham
C is for Chatham Chatham (often referred to as Chats) was one of Britain's three naval bases - the others being Portsmouth and Plymouth. It was located on the River Medway. Here's a map so you can see them in relation to each other. Wikipedia tells us that Chatham was set up as a Royal Dockyard by Elizabeth 1 in 1567. Perhaps the most famous vessel to be built in this dockyard is HMS Victory now housed at Portsmouth . Chatham was attacked by the Dutch in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway. They burned ships and carried off the flagship HMS Royal Charles, part of which can still be seen in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. How galling. This is what the Dockyard looked like circa 1890 The Dockyard Chatham, England, Library of Congress. No known copyright restrictions. The last warship to be built at Chatham was the Oberon-class submarine the HMCS Okanagan in 1966 according to this post here. The dockyard closed in 1984. The Royal...