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Pembroke Dock is a town in South Pembrokeshire, Wales, lying north of Pembroke on the River Cleddau. It is the third largest town in Pembrokeshire.
Pembroke Dock is well-served by the A477 trunk road which runs from St. Clears through Pembroke Dock and over the Daugleddau estuary via the Cleddau Bridge to Haverfordwest. It also has a ferry terminal from which ferries sail twice-daily to Rosslare in Ireland. The service is operated by Irish Ferries.
Prior to 1814, the site of modern Pembroke Dock and its nearby settlements were mostly farmland and the area was referred to as Paterchurch. The first recorded mention of Paterchurch was in 1289. In the area a medieval tower was built and, like nearby eighteenth and nineteenth century fortifications, it may have served as a lookout post. By the 17th century, additional domestic and farm buildings stood close to the tower and the isolated settlement had its own cemetery, whose last recorded burial is that of Roger Adams, in 1731. The ruin of the tower now lies within the walls of the Dockyard.
Paterchurch Tower was the center of an estate said to stretch from Pennar Point to Cosheston. This changed hands in 1422 when Ellen de Paterchurch married John Adams. Prior to the building of the town and before the dockyard was thought of, various sales and exchanges took place between the principal local landowners - the Adams, Owen and Meyrick families. These exchanges left the Meyricks in control of most of the land on which the dockyard and new town were to develop. By 1802 the Paterchurch buildings were mostly ruins.
The town of Pembroke Dock was founded in 1814 when a Naval Dockyard was established. On the 10th February 1816 the first two ships launched from the dockyard were Valorous and Ariadne, both 28 gun frigates. In the span of 112 years, 5 Royal Yachts were built along with 263 other Naval vessels.
As the dockyard and its importance grew, the need to defend it was addressed and Pembroke Dock became a military town. Work began in 1844 to build defensible barracks. In 1845 the first occupiers were the Royal Marines of the Portsmouth Division followed though the years by many famous regiments. Between 1849 and 1857 two Martello towers of dressed Portland stone were constructed at the south-western and north-western corner of the Dockyard. Both were garrisoned by Sergeants of Artillery and their families.
The last ship launched from the dockyard was the RFA tanker Oleander on 26th April 1922.
With the closure of the dockyard in 1926, unemployment was high until 1931 when No. 210 Squadron RAF arrived equipped with Southampton II's flying boats. For almost 30 years the RAF were based at Pembroke Dock. During 1943, when home to the Sunderland Flying Boats, it was the largest operational base for flying boats in the world.
Given its importance as an RAF base, it was no surprise that during WW2 Pembroke Dock was targeted by the German Luftwaffe. On Monday 19 August 1940 a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber flew up the Haven waterway and bombed a series of oil tanks sited at Pennar. The fire that followed raged for 18 days and was recorded as the largest conflagration since the Great Fire of London.
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