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A Royal Naval Hospital was a hospital operated by the British Royal Navy for the care and treatment of sick and injured naval personnel. A network of these establishments were situated across the glob
The earliest surviving Royal Naval Hospital complex is on the Illa del Rei, Port Mahon, Menorca (built 1711-12, extended 1771–76, restored 2011).
Illa Del Rei, Port Mahon, Menorca: the main range when built had ten separate wards, linked by a verandah.
18th-century engraving of the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth.
Naval hospital, Madras: coloured aquatint by James Baily, 1811.
The Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse was a medical facility for naval officers and other ranks at Stonehouse, Plymouth. It was opened in 1760, so becoming the second Royal Naval Hospital in Great Brit
Royal Naval Hospital
…Britain, the decision was finally taken to establish Royal Naval Hospitals on a permanent footing in Gosport (Royal Hospital Haslar) and Stonehouse (Royal Hospital Plymouth); however a proposed third hospital (at Queenborough) was not then built, as Chatham by that time had ceased to function as a front-line base. In the…
Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, in 1897.
A comparison of the naval hospitals at Haslar (centre and bottom left) and Plymouth (top and bottom right), the former with its wards connected end-to-end, the latter with separate pavilions.