Image caption, HMS Cavalier was rotting in a dry dock on Tyneside before it was moved to Chatham A restored World War II destroyer on display in dry dock in Chatham has been named the best education ...

HMS Cavalier was launched on 7th April 1944 as one of 96 emergency destroyers ordered for the war effort between 1940 and 1942. When she paid off in Chatham in 1972, HMS Cavalier was the Royal Navy’s ...

A gun on a restored World War II destroyer on display in dry dock in Chatham has been fired for the first time in nearly 40 years. The Heritage Naval Gun Crew fired a blank round from one of two 4.5in ...

Chatham is to have some special guests next month, it has been announced. The ship's company from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Lancaster are to arrive to join the 70th anniversary of the launch of HMS ...

Britain's last World War II naval Destroyer HMS Cavalier is back in the water and to be opened to the public for the very first time in more than 10 years. The ship has undergone an 18 month ...

HMS Cavalier - the wartime destroyer that wouldn't die - goes on display to the public today, a happy ending to a disastrous plan for a North-East maritime museum. When South Tyneside Council paid £90 ...

For over 400 years the Chatham Dockyard just outside London built boats for the British Navy and their allies. From sailing ships to submarines, Chatham built over 500 vessels. Today it's a naval ...

Chatham is to have some special guests next month, it has been announced. The ship's company from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Lancaster are to arrive to join the 70th anniversary of the launch of HMS ...