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1661
- Jan
Ropeyard (Woolwich)
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First Reading
Terry F. • Link
"The Royal Ropeyard at Woolwich....was established from around 1573 to supply the whole of the Royal Navy. Until around 1750 it employed over 400 people. Woolwich ropeyard was one of the greatest rope manufactories in the world at the time, and would have been as significant as later roperies at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth.....The resources needed to build a ship of the line were staggering; in addition to up to 2,000 mature trees, each ship required between 30 and 40 miles of rope, which needed renewing every 2 or 3 years. The Woolwich Ropeyard, eventually 1,080' long, produced standard 100 fathom (600 foot) lengths of rope. Now largely lying under Beresford Street, it stretched from the Arsenal Gatehouse to Riverside House." http://www.royal-arsenal.com/wars…
Terry F. • Link
"In the 17th and 18th centuries there were six Royal Navy dockyards in England, at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Plymouth....
Officers at the yards were appointed by the Board of Admiralty, but otherwise yards were under the administration of the Navy Board, represented at the yard by a resident commissioner. The principal officers at each yard were:
Terry F. • Link
The "dock" for the yards at Woolwich is, I gather, below Redriffe on the west side of the Thames opposite the Isle of Dogs. http://www.motco.com/map/81001/
Terry Foreman • Link
Isle of Dogs
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
The “dock” for the yards at Woolwich was, I gather, below Redriffe on the west side of the Thames opposite.
Second Reading
San Diego Sarah • Link
The name, Isle of Dogs, may be because it was the site of Henry VIII’s hunting kennels.
Third Reading
San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: Cables and cordage generally were made from hemp which was spun into yarn, laid in tar and then twisted into rope. Long ropeyards were required for the last process. The yarn was made pliable by exposure for about two days to slow heat over a charcoal fire in a stove-house.