RN Barracks - HMS Drake (Devonport)
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:28 pm
HMS Drake is the Royal Naval Barracks at Keyham, Devonport. It was previously named after the Commander in Chief's yacht HMS Vivid and the name was changed in 1934.
Until the late nineteenth century, sailors whose ships were being repaired or refitted, or who were awaiting allocation to a vessel, were accommodated in floating hulks. Construction of an onshore barracks, just north-east of the North Yard, was completed in 1889 with accommodation for 2,500; sailors and officers moved in in June of that year. In 1894 a contingent of sixty Royal Navy homing pigeons was accommodated on the site.
The barracks was first used from 1889, when 500 men transferred ashore from HMS Royal Adelaide and the name Vivid was used from 1890.
More recently the barracks and dockyard have come under the collective name of Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport and the barracks buildings termed the Fleet Accommodation Centre.
You can find out more about the HMNB Devonport here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNB_Devonport
An old aerial view of the barracks
Until the late nineteenth century, sailors whose ships were being repaired or refitted, or who were awaiting allocation to a vessel, were accommodated in floating hulks. Construction of an onshore barracks, just north-east of the North Yard, was completed in 1889 with accommodation for 2,500; sailors and officers moved in in June of that year. In 1894 a contingent of sixty Royal Navy homing pigeons was accommodated on the site.
The barracks was first used from 1889, when 500 men transferred ashore from HMS Royal Adelaide and the name Vivid was used from 1890.
More recently the barracks and dockyard have come under the collective name of Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport and the barracks buildings termed the Fleet Accommodation Centre.
You can find out more about the HMNB Devonport here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNB_Devonport
An old aerial view of the barracks