HMNB Devonport, one of the main bases of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom
Few other details of his early life are available, but in 1885 he was at Devonport serving with the Royal Navy on the training ship Lion.
Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Devonport (formerly HMS Drake), is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth).
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Edmund Dummer a Naval Officer travelled the West Country searching for an area where a dockyard could be built; he sent in two estimates for sites, one in Plymouth, Cattewater and one further along the coast, on the Hamoaze, a section of the River Tamar, in the parish of Stoke Damerel.
Cheadle served as Director of Nuclear Propulsion at the Ministry of Defence and then as Commander of HM Naval Base Devonport.
As well as project teams the WSA operated the three naval bases in Portsmouth, Plymouth and on the Clyde.
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It operates from Newquay using two Eurocopter AS 365N2 Dauphin helicopters on behalf of the Royal Navy Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) based at HMS Drake in HMNB Devonport.
Following the necessary Act of Parliament in 1860, the Metropolitan Police took over policing of Portsmouth and Devonport Dockyards.
At present it consists of two flotillas based at Portsmouth and Devonport, both on the south coast of England, and a flotilla based at the Clyde Naval Base at Faslane in Scotland.
Serco Denholm is a joint venture between Serco Group and Denholm Group to provide Marine Services in support of the Naval Service at its three main naval bases, HMNB Portsmouth, HMNB Devonport and HMNB Clyde.
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However, Marine Services was put out to commercial tender by the Ministry of Defence Warship Support Agency (now part of the Defence Equipment and Support organisation) and since 1996 tugs, lifting craft, various tenders and management of HMNB Devonport, Portsmouth and Clyde have been operated and provided by Serco Denholm.
Woodland Fort is one of the Palmerston Forts that form Plymouth's North Eastern defences, whose purpose was to defend the Royal Dockyard at Devonport from the possibility of a French attack, under the leadership of Napoleon III.