page_title: Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Admiralty House, now the Maritime Command Museum, in Halifax, Nova Scotia
context_page_description: Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax was a Royal Navy base in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Established in 1759, the Halifax Yard served as the headquarters for the Royal Navy's North American Station for sixty years, starting with the Seven Years' War. The Royal Navy continued to operate the station until it was closed in 1905. The station was sold to Canada in 1907 becoming Her Majesty's Canadian Dockyard, a function it still serves today as part of CFB Halifax.
context_section_description: The Naval Yard was initially defended by its own large blockhouse, three redoubts and a fortified stone wall. These defences were enhanced and later replaced by the large network of army fortifications whose main purposes was to safeguard the Naval Dockyard including nearby Fort Needham, Fort George, the Halifax Citadel; York Redoubt; Fort Charlotte on Georges Island, Fort Clarence in Dartmouth; five forts on McNabs Island and extensive batteries at Point Pleasant. 
  Many of the original Royal Navy 18th and 19th century buildings in the Dockyard were destroyed in the 1917 Halifax Explosion; others were demolished in World War II to make way for machine shops, stores buildings and drill halls needed to man and maintain the many escort ships being commissioned during the crash expansion of the Royal Canadian Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic. Only one residence from 1814 and the Admiral's Residence from 1816 survived. The Admiral's residence in now the Maritime Command Museum. The original Naval Yard clock has been restored and moved to the Halifax Ferry Terminal entrance while the original Naval Yard bell is preserved at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, a museum which also features a large diorama depicting the Naval Yard in 1813 at its height in the Age of Sail.
  The building and facilities in the base included:
  careening wharf
  mast ponds and mast house
  boat house
  refitting yard
  building slip
  astronomical observatory
  commissioner's residence
  graving yard (after 1887)
  coal facility
  torpedo boat yard
  Wardroom
  victualling yard (North Dockyard)
  Gate Warder's House
  Commissioner's House
  Hospital – home to Royal Naval College of Canada from 1911 to 1917
  Admiralty House – home to the Admiral of the North American Station and now Maritime Command Museum
caption: Completed in 1819, Admiralty House served as the summer residence for the commander of the North American station.
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