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Admiral-superintendent
The admiral-superintendent was the Royal Navy officer in command of a larger Naval Dockyard.
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Admiralty
The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.
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Age of Sail
The Age of Sail (usually dated as 1571–1862) was a period roughly corresponding to the early modern period in which international trade and naval warfare were dominated by sailing ships, lasting from the 16th to the mid-19th century.
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Anchorage (maritime)
An anchorage is a location at sea where ships can lower anchors.
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Andrew Bickford
Admiral Andrew Kennedy Bickford CMG (16 July 1844 – 9 October 1927) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.
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Anglo-Dutch Wars
The Anglo-Dutch wars (Engels–Nederlandse Oorlogen or Engelse Zeeoorlogen) were a series of conflicts fought, on one side, by the Dutch States (the Dutch Republic, later the Batavian Republic) and, on the other side, first by England and later by the Kingdom of Great Britain/the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Apprenticeship
An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).
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Arthur Cochrane (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane KCB (24 September 1824 – 20 August 1905) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.
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Artillery battery
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of artillery, mortars, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface to surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles etc, so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.
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Barracks
A barrack or barracks is a building or group of buildings built to house soldiers.
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Bastion
A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners.
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Bernard de Gomme
Sir Bernard de Gomme (1620 – 23 November 1685) was a Dutch military engineer.
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Blockhouse
In military science, a blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions.
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Blue Town
Blue Town is a suburb of the town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
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Board of Ordnance
The Board of Ordnance was a British government body.
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Boathouse
A boathouse (or a boat house) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats, normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use.
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Boatswain
A boatswain (formerly and dialectally also), bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun, also known as a Petty Officer or a qualified member of the deck department, is the seniormost rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship's hull.
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Breakwater (structure)
Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal management or to protect an anchorage from the effects of both weather and longshore drift.
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Captain of the port
The captain of the port is an official who has different functions in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries.
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Casemate
A casemate, sometimes erroneously rendered casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired.
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Charles George Fane
Admiral Sir Charles George Fane, KCB (13 November 1837 – 23 February 1909) was a British Royal Navy officer who was Admiral superintendent at HM Dockyard Portsmouth.
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Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.
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Chatham, Kent
Chatham is one of the Medway towns located within the Medway unitary authority, in North Kent, in South East England.
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Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, and railways.
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Clerk of the Acts
The Clerk of the Acts originally known as the Keeper of the King's Ports and Galleys was a civilian officer in the Royal Navy who was also a principle member of the Navy Board as Clerk of the Navy from 1546 to 1660 and Clerk of the Acts from 1660 until 1796, he was responsible for the organisation of Navy Office, processing naval contracts and coordinating the secretarial side of the Navy Board's work, when this post's duties were merged with that of the Second Secretary to the Admiralty later known as the Permanent Secretary to Admiralty.
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Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
The Commander-in-Chief, The Nore was an operational commander of the Royal Navy.
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Corvette
A corvette is a small warship.
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Courtenay Boyle
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Crimean War
The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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Deep foundation
A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.
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Deptford Dockyard
Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, in what is now the London Borough of Lewisham, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.
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Device Forts
The Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles and blockhouses, were a series of artillery fortifications built to defend the coast of England and Wales by Henry VIII.
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Ditch (fortification)
A ditch in military engineering is an obstacle, designed to slow down or break up an attacking force, while a trench is intended to provide cover to the defenders.
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Dock (maritime)
A dock (from Dutch dok) is the area of water between or next to one or a group of human-made structures that are involved in the handling of boats or ships (usually on or near a shore) or such structures themselves.
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Dry dock
A dry dock (sometimes dry-dock or drydock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.
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Edward Holl
Edward Holl was an architect to the Navy Board, then later Surveyor of Buildings to the Board of Admiralty of the British Royal Navy.
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First Lord of the Admiralty
The First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the political head of the Royal Navy who was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs and responsible for the direction and control of Admiralty Department as well as general administration of the Naval Service of the United Kingdom, that encompassed the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines and other services.
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First-rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line, equivalent to the 'super-dreadnought' of more recent times.
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Fortification
A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.
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Garrison Point Fort
Garrison Point Fort is a former artillery fort situated at the end of the Garrison Point peninsula at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
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George Ledwell Taylor
George Ledwell Taylor (31 March 1788 – 1 May 1873) was an architect and landowner who lived in London.
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Gillingham, Kent
Gillingham is a town in the county of Kent in South East England.
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Grain Tower
Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway.
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Henry Nicholson (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Henry Frederick Nicholson, KCB (21 October 1835 – 1915) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
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Heritage at Risk
Heritage at Risk are heritage assets, such as listed buildings, or scheduled monuments that are at risk as a result of neglect, decay or inappropriate development, or are vulnerable to becoming so.
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Historic England
Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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HMNB Devonport
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport), is the largest naval base in Western Europe and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy.
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HMNB Portsmouth
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the British Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport).
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HMS Acheron (1838)
HMS Acheron was a ''Hermes''-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Brilliant (1891)
HMS Brilliant was an of the British Royal Navy which served from 1893 to 1918 in various colonial posts and off the British Isles as a hastily converted minelayer during the First World War.
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HMS Bristol (1775)
HMS Bristol was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line, built for the Royal Navy in the 1770s.
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HMS Buzzard (1887)
HMS Buzzard was a ''Nymphe''-class composite screw sloop and the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.
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HMS Cadmus (1903)
HMS Cadmus was a of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Calliope (1837)
HMS Calliope was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in October 1837 and broken up in November 1883.
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HMS Carysfort (1766)
HMS Carysfort was a 28-gun ''Coventry''-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Clio (1858)
HMS Clio was a wooden 22-gun, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 28 August 1858.
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HMS Clio (1903)
HMS Clio was a of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Daedalus (1826)
HMS Daedalus was a nineteenth-century warship of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Diamond (1874)
HMS Diamond was an built for the Royal Navy at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 26 September 1874.
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HMS Fantome (1901)
HMS Fantome was an sloop launched in 1901, transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1914, returned to the Royal Navy in 1920, and sold in 1924.
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HMS Gannet (1878)
HMS Gannet was a Royal Navy screw sloop launched on 31 August 1878.
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HMS Goldfinch (1889)
HMS Goldfinch was a of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 18 May 1889.
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HMS Kingfisher (1879)
HMS Kingfisher was a screw sloop of the Royal Navy.
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HMS L27
HMS L27 was a L-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War I. The boat was not completed before the end of the war and was one of three L-class boats to serve during World War II.
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HMS Medway (1693)
HMS Medway was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 20 September 1693.
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HMS Mermaid (1784)
HMS Mermaid was a 32-gun ''Active''-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1784 and broken up in 1815.
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HMS Miranda (1851)
HMS Miranda was a 14-gun (15-gun from 1856) wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1851 and sold for breaking in 1869.
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HMS Montreal (1761)
HMS Montreal was a 32-gun ''Niger''-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Newcastle (1704)
HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 10 March 1704.
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HMS Pelorus (1896)
HMS Pelorus was the first of the, and was laid down at Sheerness dockyard in 1896.
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HMS Polyphemus (1782)
HMS Polyphemus, a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 April 1782 at Sheerness.
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HMS Pylades (1884)
HMS Pylades was an ''Satellite''-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 5 November 1884.
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HMS Rattler (1843)
HMS Rattler was a 9-gun wooden sloop of the Royal Navy and the first British warship to adopt a screw propeller powered by a steam engine.
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HMS Salamander (1832)
HMS Salamander was one of the first paddle warships built for the Royal Navy.
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HMS Scarborough (1711)
HMS Scarborough was a 32 gun fifth-rate ship built at the Sheerness Dockyard and launched by the Royal Navy in 1711.
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HMS Shearwater (1900)
HMS Shearwater was a sloop launched in 1900.
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HMS Thracian (1920)
HMS Thracian was an built for the Royal Navy during the First World War.
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HMS Torch (1894)
HMS Torch was an ''Alert''-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched in 1894.
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HMS Vestal (1833)
HMS Vestal was a 26-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Winchelsea (1764)
HMS Winchelsea was a 32-gun fifth-rate ''Niger''-class frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear this name (or its archaic form Winchelsey).
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Home Fleet
The Home Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy that operated in the United Kingdom's territorial waters from 1902 with intervals until 1967.
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Hugh Marrack
Rear Admiral Hugh Richard Marrack, CBE, DSC (5 July 1888 – 12 February 1972) was a submarine specialist in the Royal Navy who commanded both the Portland and China Submarine flotillas and was Commodore Superintendent, Gibraltar, 1943–45.
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Hulk (ship type)
A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea.
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Human settlement
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live.
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Inverted arch
An inverted arch is a civil engineering structure in the form of an inverted arch, inverted in comparison to the usual arch bridge.
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Ironclad warship
An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century.
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Isle of Grain
St James, Isle of Grain (Old English Greon meaning gravel) is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the district of Medway in Kent.
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Isle of Sheppey
The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary, some to the east of London.
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John Casement
Admiral John Moore Casement CB (13 September 1877 – 25 January 1952) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the 3rd Battle Squadron.
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John Ommanney Hopkins
Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins GCB (13 July 1834 – 29 September 1916) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet.
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John Rennie the Elder
John Rennie FRSE FRS (7 June 1761 – 4 October 1821) was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks.
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Joiner
A joiner is an artisan who builds things by joining pieces of wood, particularly lighter and more ornamental work than that done by a carpenter, including furniture and the "fittings" of a house, ship, etc.
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Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Land reclamation
Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a landfill), is the process of creating new land from ocean, riverbeds, or lake beds.
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List of Lord High Admirals (United Kingdom)
The Lord High Admiral (of England, Great Britain and then the United Kingdom, beginning in the 14th century) is the titular head of the Royal Navy.
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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Lofting
Lofting is a drafting technique (sometimes using mathematical tables) whereby curved lines are generated, to be used in plans for streamlined objects such as aircraft and boats.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.
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Masting sheer
A masting sheer, sheers, shears or masting crane is a specialised shipyard crane, intended for placing tall masts onto large sailing ships.
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Medway Ports
Medway Ports, incorporating the Port of Sheerness and Chatham Docks is part of Peel Ports, the second largest port group in the United Kingdom.
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Metalsmith
A metalsmith or simply smith is a craftsman fashioning useful items (for example, tools, kitchenware, tableware, jewellery, and weapons) out of various metals.
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.
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National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world.
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Naval artillery
Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare, later also for naval gunfire support against targets on land, and for anti-aircraft use.
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Navy Board
The Navy Board also known as the Navy Office and formerly known as the Council of the Marine or Council of the Marine Causes was the organisation with responsibility for day-to-day civil administration of the Royal Navy between 1546 and 1832.
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Nore
The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, England.
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North Sea
The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Olau Line
Olau Line was a shipping company that existed from 1956 to 1994.
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Ordinary seaman (rating)
Ordinary seaman is a military rank used in naval forces.
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P. M. B. Chavasse
Captain Paul Morrison Bushe Chavasse CBE, DSC and Bar (4 January 1908 - 23 August 1994) was the 3rd Commander of the Royal Ceylon Navy.
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Paddle steamer
A paddle steamer is a steamship or riverboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.
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Panopticon
The Panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century.
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Pitch (resin)
Pitch is a name for any of a number of viscoelastic polymers.
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Port admiral
Port admiral is an honorary rank in the United States Navy, and a former appointment in the British Royal Navy.
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Port authority
In Canada and the United States, port authority (less commonly a port district) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure.
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Propeller
A propeller is a type of fan that transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust.
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Pumping station
Pumping stations are facilities including pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
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Queenborough
Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.
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Quicksand
Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular material (such as sand, silt or clay), and water.
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Raid on the Medway
The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English battleships at a time when most were virtually unmanned and unarmed, laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent.
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Reach (geography)
A reach is a length of a stream or river, usually suggesting a level, uninterrupted stretch.
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Real estate development
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.
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Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson
Admiral Sir Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson, (20 November 1846 – 12 July 1932) was a British Royal Navy officer who was Captain Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard 1899–1902, Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard 1902–1905, and Admiral Commanding, Coastguards and Reserves 1905–1909.
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Richard Duckworth-King
Vice-Admiral Richard Duckworth-King (16 July 1840 – 4 January 1900) was a Royal Navy officer who became Admiral Superintendent at Malta Dockyard.
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River Medway
The River Medway is a river in South East England.
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Robert More-Molyneux
Admiral Sir Robert Henry More-Molyneux GCB (7 August 1838 – 29 February 1904) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
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Robert Prendergast
Admiral Sir Robert John Prendergast KCB (9 July 1864–14 May 1946) was a British Royal Navy officer.
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Roof pitch
In building construction, roof pitch is a numerical measure of the steepness of a roof.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Royal Navy Dockyard
Royal Navy Dockyards were harbour facilities where commissioned ships were either built or based, or where ships were overhauled and refitted.
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Royal Netherlands Navy
The Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine, “Royal Navy”) is the navy of the Netherlands.
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Samuel Bentham
Sir Samuel Bentham (11 January 1757 – 31 May 1831) was a noted English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons.
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Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.
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SAVE Britain's Heritage
SAVE Britain's Heritage was created in 1975, European Architectural Heritage Year, by a group of journalists, historians, architects, and planners to campaign publicly for endangered historic buildings.
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Saw pit
A saw pit or sawpit is a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed with a long two-handled saw by two men, one standing above the timber and the other below.
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Sawmill
A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.
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Sheerness
Sheerness is a town beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England.
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Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through to the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside firepower to bear.
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Ship's boat
Ship's boats are utility boats carried by larger vessels to act as tenders amongst other roles.
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Shooting range
A shooting range or firing range or archery range or pistol range or rifle range or shooting gallery or shooting ground is a specialized facility designed for archery or firearms practice.
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Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet
Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet, (10 October 1767 – 3 October 1828) was a British Royal Navy officer.
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Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet
Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet, (16 May 1759 – 23 July 1839) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet
Sir John Poo Beresford, 1st Baronet, GCH (1766 – 2 October 1844) was an officer of the Royal Navy who rose to the rank of admiral, held the post of Second Sea Lord, and also served as Conservative Member of Parliament.
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Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust
The Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust, also known as the Spitalfields Trust, is a British architectural conservation charity.
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Steam bending
Steam bending is a woodworking technique where strips of wood are steam heated using a steam box.
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Surveyor of Buildings (Royal Navy)
The Surveyor of Buildings also known as the Department of the Surveyor of Buildings was the civil officer initially a member of the Navy Board then later the Board of Admiralty responsible for superintending, maintaining and improving the British Royal Navy Dockyards, Naval Buildings, and Architectural Works of the Admiralty from 1812 to 1837.
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Thames Estuary
The Thames Estuary is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.
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The Peel Group
The Peel Group (commonly known by its former name Peel Holdings) is one of the UK's foremost privately owned investment enterprises, embracing a broad range of sectors - land and property; transport and logistics; retail and leisure; energy and media.
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Third Sea Lord
The post of Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy originally known as Third Naval Lord was formerly the Naval Lord and member of the Board of Admiralty responsible for procurement and matériel in the British Royal Navy.
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Thomas Brandreth (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Thomas Brandreth, (6 August 1825 – 10 December 1894) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy.
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Torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle.
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Training ship
A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors.
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Tudor navy
The Tudor navy was the navy of the Kingdom of England under the ruling Tudor dynasty (1485–1603).
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Victorian Society
The Victorian Society is a UK charity, the national authority on Victorian and Edwardian architecture built between 1837 and 1914 in England and Wales.
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Victualling Commissioners
The Commissioners for the Victualling of the Navy, often called the Victualling Commissioners or Victualling Board, was the body responsible under the Navy Board for victualling ships of the British Royal Navy.
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Vlissingen
Vlissingen (Zeelandic: Vlissienge; historical name in Flushing) is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren.
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Walter Hodgson Bevan Graham
Admiral Walter Hodgson Bevan Graham (13 October 1849 – August 1931) was a British Royal Navy officer who was Captain Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard from 1902 until 1904.
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Warehouse
A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods.
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William Codrington (Royal Navy officer)
Rear Admiral William Codrington CB (21 February 1832 – 29 July 1888) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Junior Naval Lord.
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William IV of the United Kingdom
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837.
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William King-Hall
Admiral Sir William King-Hall (11 March 1816 – 29 July 1886) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
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William Luard
Admiral Sir William Garnham Luard KCB (7 April 1820 – 19 May 1910) was a leading British naval figure during the latter half of the 19th century.
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Wood drying
Wood drying (also seasoning lumber or wood seasoning) reduces the moisture content of wood before its use.
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Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames in Woolwich, where a large number of ships were built from the early 16th century until the late 19th century.
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World Monuments Fund
World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheerness_Dockyard
