Nine ships and a number of shore establishments of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Pembroke''.
Ships
* was a 28-gun
fifth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower.
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launched in 1655 and lost in a collision off Portland in 1667.
* was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1690, captured by the French in 1694 and subsequently wrecked.
* was a 60-gun
fourth rate
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launched in 1694 and captured by the French in 1709. She was recaptured in 1711. In 1713 was purchased in Genoa by Spain.
* was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1710 and broken up in 1726.
* was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1733. She foundered in 1745, but was raised and wrecked off the East Indies in 1749.
* was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1757, hulked in 1776 before being broken-up in 1793.
* was a 74-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third ...
launched in 1812. She was converted to a screw ship in 1855, transferred to the
Coastguard
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in 1858, and used as a base ship from 1887. She was renamed HMS ''Forte'' as a
receiving hulk in 1890, and was sold in 1905.
*
HMS ''Pembroke'' was a 101-gun screw propelled
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. Originating in the Jacobean era with the designation of Ships Royal capable of carrying at ...
launched in 1859 as . She was renamed HMS ''Pembroke'' on her transferral to harbour service in 1890, renamed HMS ''Tenedos II'' in 1905 and was sold in 1910.
* is a launched in 1997; in service in 2016.
Shore establishments
*
HMS ''Pembroke'' was the name given to a shore barracks at
Chatham
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Places and jurisdictions Canada
* Chatham Islands (British Columbia)
* Chatham Sound, British Columbia
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* Chatham (electoral district), New Brunswic ...
. It was commissioned in 1878, moved ashore in 1903 and was paid off in 1983. The buildings, designed by Sir Henry Pilkington, now house the
Universities at Medway
The Universities at Medway is a tri-partite collaboration of the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University on a single campus in Chatham, Medway in South East England.
Site
The historic HMS Pembrok ...
.
*A number of ships were renamed ''Pembroke'' while serving as base and depot ships for the establishment:
** was the original base ship between 1873 and 1890 (which gave the shore base its name)
** was HMS ''Pembroke'' from 1890 until 1905.
** was HMS ''Pembroke'' from 1905 until 1917.
** was HMS ''Pembroke'' from 1917 until 1920.
** was HMS ''Pembroke'' from 1919 until 1923.
** was HMS ''Pembroke'' for several months in 1922.
**''Daniel Fearall'' was HMS ''Pembroke'' between 1922 until 1939.
*There were a number of other ''Pembroke''s established across the country during the twentieth century.
**HMS ''Pembroke I'' - accounting base at Chatham between 1940 and 1960.
**HMS ''Pembroke II'' -
Royal Naval Air Station
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at
Eastchurch
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Aviation history
Eastch ...
between 1913 and 1918.
**HMS ''Pembroke II'' - accounting base at Chatham between 1940 and 1957.
**HMS ''Pembroke III'' - accounting base at London and outstations between 1942 and 1952.
**HMS ''Pembroke IV'' - accounting base at Chatham between 1919 and 1920, and
the Nore
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between 1939 and 1961.
** - naval base at
Dover between 1919 and 1923, secret base at
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes ( Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years followin ...
between 1941 and 1945, and the name for
WRNS personnel in London between 1945 and 1946.
**HMS ''Pembroke VI'' - accounting section at Chatham in 1919.
**HMS ''Pembroke VII'' - depot ship for auxiliary patrols at
Grimsby
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between 1919 and 1921.
**HMS ''Pembroke VIII'' -
HM Naval Base, Immingham and as the flag ship of the Commanding Officer, Humber Area on the
Humber
The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal rivers Ouse and Trent. From there to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between t ...
between 1920 and 1921.
**HMS ''Pembroke X'' - headquarters of the Royal Navy Patrol Service at
Lowestoft between 1939 and 1940.
See also
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References
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*Warlow, Ben, ''Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy'', Liskeard : Maritime, 2000.
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