HMS Pembroke - Shore Establishments

Shore Establishments

• HMS Pembroke was the name given to a number of shore barracks at Chatham, Harwich and on the Forth. It was commissioned in 1878, moved ashore in 1903 and was paid off in 1983. A number of ships were renamed Pembroke while serving as base and depot ships for the establishment:
  • HMS Pembroke was the original base ship between 1873 and 1890.
  • HMS Duncan was HMS Pembroke from 1890 until 1905.
  • HMS Trent was HMS Pembroke from 1905 until 1917.
  • HMS Nymphe was HMS Pembroke from 1917 until 1920.
  • HMS Achilles was HMS Pembroke from 1919 until 1923.
  • HMS Prince Rupert was HMS Pembroke for several months in 1922.
  • Daniel Fearall was HMS Pembroke between 1922 until 1939.
• There were a number of other Pembrokes established across the country during the twentieth century.
  • HMS Pembroke I - accounting base at Chatham between 1940 and 1960.
  • HMS Pembroke II - Royal Naval Air Station at Eastchurch between 1913 and 1918.
  • HMS Pembroke II - accounting base at Chatham between 1940 and 1957.
  • HMS Pembroke III - accounting base at London and outstations between 1942 and 1952.
  • HMS Pembroke IV - accounting base at Chatham between 1919 and 1920, and the Nore between 1939 and 1961.
  • HMS Pembroke V - naval base at Dover between 1919 and 1923, secret base at Bletchley Park between 1941 and 1945, and the name for WRNS personnel in London between 1945 and 1946.
  • HMS Pembroke VI - accounting section at Chatham in 1919.
  • HMS Pembroke VII - depot ship for auxiliary patrols at Grimsby between 1919 and 1921.
  • HMS Pembroke VIII - naval base on the Humber between 1920 and 1921.
  • HMS Pembroke X - headquarters of the Royal Navy Patrol Service at Lowestoft between 1939 and 1940.