Walmer Castle is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII in Walmer, Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme...
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coastline and castle are popular amongst tourists. It has a population of 6,693 (2001), increasing to 8,178 at the 2011 Census. Walmer is closely associated...
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The RMS Walmer Castle was a Royal Mail Ship of the Union-Castle Line in service between London, England and Cape Town, South Africa between 1902 and 1930...
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Several vessels have been named Walmer Castle for Walmer Castle: Walmer Castle (1796 EIC ship) was an East Indiaman. She made nine voyages for the British...
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Clay and the Walmer Bulwark, and a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) defensive ditch and bank. Collectively the castles became known as the "castles of the Downes"...
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(K499) (ex-HMS Woolvesey Castle) HMCS Kincardine (K490) (ex-HMS Tamworth Castle) HMCS Leaside (K492) (ex-HMS Walmer Castle, later SS Coquitlam II) HMCS...
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handguns. It cost the Crown a total of £27,092 to build the three castles of Sandown, Walmer and Deal, which lay adjacent to one another along the coast and...
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Device Forts (redirect from Henrician castle)
Gray. OCLC 4866519. Elvin, Charles R. S. (1894). The History of Walmer and Walmer Castle. Canterbury, UK: Cross and Jackman. OCLC 23374336. Finley, Eric...
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Walmer Castle first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1856. A telegram from Batavia dated 11:40am 26 December 1876 reported that Walmer Castle, Lanfesty...
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order (renamed Walmer Castle before it came into service) and the Castle Line fleet included: Arundel Castle (3) (1894–1905), Avondale Castle (1897–1912)...
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