The historic dockyard chatham is a remarkable place just 35 miles 56 kilometres from central london it is a place that lets you explore a complete dockyard from the heyday of the age of sail and beyond discover how ships including hms victory were designed and built climb aboard a sloop a destroyer and a submarine get hands on in the victorian ropery where rigging for hms victory was made and where rope is still made today explore galleries that unfurl the secrets of great britains m