Pembroke Dockyard | |
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Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales | |
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The former Dockyard viewed from the Defensible Barracks
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Coordinates | 51°41′43″N 4°57′17″W / 51.6952°N 4.9548°W / 51.6952; -4.9548 |
Type | Dockyard |
Site history | |
Built | 1814 (1814) |
Fate | Closed 1926 |
Pembroke Dockyard, originally called Pater Yard, is a former Royal Navy DockyardinPembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
It was founded in 1814, although not formally authorized until the Prince Regent signed the necessary Order in Council on 31 October 1815, and was known as Pater Yard until 1817. The Mayor of Pembroke had requested the change "in deference to the town of Pembroke some two miles (3.2 km) distant".[1]
The site selected for the dockyard was greenfield land and the closest accommodations were in Pembroke. Office space was provided by the old frigate Lapwing after she was beached. The Royal Marine garrison was housed in the hulked 74-gun ship, HMS Dragon, after she was run aground in 1832. Many of the workmen commuted by boat from nearby communities until Pembroke Dock town was built up.[2] In 1860 the dockyard's policing was transferred to the new No. 4 Division of the Metropolitan Police, which remained in that role until the 1920s.[3]
After the end of the First World War, the dockyard was closed by the cash-strapped Admiralty as redundant in 1926. The Royal Air Force, however, built RAF Pembroke Dock on the site during the 1930s to house its flying boats, demolishing many of the existing buildings to make room for the necessary hangars and other facilities.[4]
The admiral-superintendent[5] was the Royal Navy officer in command of a larger Naval Dockyard. Portsmouth, Devonport and Chatham all had admiral-superintendents, as did some other dockyards in the United Kingdom and abroad at certain times. The admiral-superintendent usually held the rank of rear-admiral. His deputy was the captain of the dockyard (or captain of the port from 1969).
Some smaller dockyards, such as Sheerness and Pembroke,[6] had a captain-superintendent [7] instead, whose deputy was styled commander of the dockyard. The appointment of a commodore-superintendent [8] was also made from time to time in certain yards.
The appointment of admiral-superintendents (or their junior equivalents) dates from 1832 when the Admiralty took charge of the Royal Dockyards. Prior to this larger dockyards were overseen by a commissioner who represented the Navy Board.
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Direction and control of Admiralty and Naval affairs |
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Boards and offices under the First Lord |
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Direction of Admirals Naval/Sea Lords War and Naval Staff |
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Secretariat and staff under the First Sea Lord |
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Operational planning, policy strategy, tactical doctrine requirements |
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Divisions and sections under the War and Naval Staff |
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Offices of the Sea Lords |
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Admiralty civil departments and organisations under the Sea Lords |
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Direction/Command of the Fleet |
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Naval formations after 1707 |
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Naval formations before 1707 |
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Direction of Naval Finance |
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Departments under the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary |
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Direction of Naval Administration and the Admiralty Secretariat |
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Branches and offices under the Permanent Secretary |
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Civil Administration |
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Departments under the Civil Lords |
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Legal |
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Principal officers |
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Subsidiary boards |
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Resident Commissioners of the navy home yards |
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Resident Commissioners of the navy overseas yards |
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Offices under the principal officers |
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