Qualla: Pembroke Dock https://qualla.com/pembroke-dock en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pembroke Dock https://qualla.com/pembroke-dock Pembroke Dock: Introduction https://qualla.com/pembroke-dock/ Until 1814 this was farmland called Paterchurch, a single medieval tower standing watch over fields that ran down to the water. Then the Admiralty needed a new dockyard. Within a decade a whole town existed where the cows had grazed - laid out in a grid, populated by shipwrights, named simply for what it was. Pembroke Dock built 263 warships, including five royal yachts, before the Navy abandoned it in 1926. The RAF moved in. By 1943 it was the largest flying boat base on Earth. And on a Monday afternoon in August 1940, it would suffer the worst fire Britain had seen in nearly three hundred years.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/pembroke-dock-wp/gchq-pembroke-dock-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pembroke Dock: Eighteen Days of Fire https://qualla.com/pembroke-dock/ On Monday 19 August 1940 a single Junkers Ju 88 came up the haven low and fast. It dropped its bombs on the Llanreath oil tank depot on the south shore and turned for home. One bomb hit a tank of fuel oil. Within minutes the tank was burning; within hours, four more had caught. T...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/pembroke-dock-wp/gchq-pembroke-dock-eighteen-days-of-fire.mp3 0:06 2 full Pembroke Dock: A Town That Built Warships https://qualla.com/pembroke-dock/ The dockyard was the reason for the town and the measure of it. The Admiralty surveyed the haven in 1757, lobbied Parliament for years, and finally laid the keel of HMS Valorous and HMS Ariadne in 1814 - both launched on the same February day in 1816. Over 112 years the yard woul...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/pembroke-dock-wp/gchq-pembroke-dock-a-town-that-built-warships.mp3 0:06 3 full Pembroke Dock: The Mighty Sundies https://qualla.com/pembroke-dock/ Rescue came in 1931 in the form of flying boats. No. 210 Squadron RAF arrived with Supermarine Southampton aircraft, lifting off from a specially-built spillway on the haven. For almost thirty years the Royal Air Force would call Pembroke Dock home. The base produced one notable ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/pembroke-dock-wp/gchq-pembroke-dock-the-mighty-sundies.mp3 0:06 4 full Pembroke Dock: What Stays, What Goes https://qualla.com/pembroke-dock/ The dockyard wall is still substantially complete. Two of the ten original building slips remain, and the dry dock survives. The Garrison Chapel at the end of the Terrace was rebuilt with European Union Objective One funding and now houses the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, where...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/q/pembroke-dock-wp/gchq-pembroke-dock-what-stays-what-goes.mp3 0:06 5 full Pembroke Dock: What the Town Carries https://qualla.com/pembroke-dock/ Pembroke Dock has been talked about, periodically, as needing a new name. A 1960s referendum rejected the change. The proposal came back in 2003: Pembroke Haven? Pembroke Harbour? A return to Paterchurch? The arguments were about image, about a reputation for unemployment and ind...

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