Portland Harbour
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Portland Harbour is beside the Isle of Portland, Dorset, on the south coast of England. Construction of the harbour began in 1849; when completed in 1872, its 520-hectare surface area made it the larg
Southern and eastern entrances of Portland Harbour looking northeast from the Isle of Portland across Balaclava Bay. The dark colour of the water between the two breakwaters in the foreground indicates the position of the scuttled battleship HMS Hood.
The western side of the Harbour with Chesil Beach, Lyme Bay and the Fleet Lagoon in the background.
Dockyard Offices (left), built (as the Engineer's Office) by John Coode in 1848, extended to the west in 1910.
Coaling shed (1856–60) on the inner breakwater. Coal was stored on the first floor and then deployed in railway wagons to waiting vessels moored along the length of the breakwater.
HMS Hood (1891)
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HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships of the class in that she had cylindrical gun tur
Portland Harbour
…submarine. In 1914, the Grand Fleet assembled in Portland Harbour before sailing to Scapa Flow. As a measure against submarine attack, the battleship HMS Hood was scuttled across the harbour's southern entrance in 1914. In 1917 the RNAS seaplane base at Portland was commissioned as HMS Sarepta. Under its…
Hood in the 1890s
The forward 13.5-inch (343-mm) gun turret on Hood
Hood in 1901