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Description: | Horatio Nelson entered the Royal Navy at the age of 12, in January 1771, when he joined his uncle, Maurice Suckling?s, ship ?Raisonnable? lying in the River Medway at Chatham. The Royal Dockyard at Chatham was, by Nelson?s period, more important as a shipbuilding and repair yard than an operational one as it had been in the 17th century when the Dutch were a major threat. (Nelson?s ?Victory?, for example, was built at Chatham.) Since then the rising power of France and ease of access to the Atlantic had reinforced the importance of Portsmouth and led in the 1690s to the founding of Plymouth Dockyard.
Box Title: Seaports D18 England. inc. Deptford, Portsmouth, Chatham, Cowes.
caption: View Of Dockyard At Chatham | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Ships and dockyards Nelson's Navy Nelson prints | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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