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By Philip MacDougall

Portsmouth Dockyard has a protracted and unique heritage. Functioning in a naval means on the grounds that 1495, even supposing extra lively as a dockyard from the Victorian interval, few different areas have the sort of popular position in Britain’s naval heritage. The dockyard is the oldest that the Royal military has, and boasts one of many oldest dry docks on the planet; this present day it gains as an important vacationer attraction.

In this ebook, Philip MacDougall makes use of his attention-grabbing number of photos to reveal the terrific fresh heritage of the dockyard. beginning with the Victorian dockyard, he appears on the robust HMS Dreadnought, which used to be equipped on the dockyard, in addition to taking the reader on a travel of the backyard and its naval position. relocating ahead in the course of the a long time, Philip considers the influence of the 2 global wars, in addition to the chilly conflict, sooner than completing the tale as much as the current day.

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