Royal Navy Dockyard
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Royal Navy Dockyards were state-owned harbour facilities where ships of the Royal Navy were built, based, repaired and refitted. Until the mid-19th century the Royal Dockyards were the largest industrial complexes in Britain.
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, founded 1496, still in service as a Naval Base.
Careening wharf and storehouses built by the Royal Navy in the 1760s, Illa Pinto, Port Mahon, Menorca.
18th-century storehouse, 19th-century dry dock and 20th-century warship preserved at Chatham
Barracks accommodation alongside No.5 Basin and the former coaling wharf at Devonport
Royal Navy
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The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service.
A late 16th-century portrait of the Spanish Armada battling Royal Navy warships
HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, is still a commissioned Royal Navy ship, although she is now permanently kept in dry-dock.
HMS Warspite and Malaya, seen from Valiant at the Battle of Jutland
Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Devon