Index
Stations - RN
Home Waters
Harwich
Invergordon
Portland
Plymouth
Queenstown
Rosyth
Scapa Flow
Solent (Spithead)
The Nore
East Indies
Aden
Colombo
China_Station
Hong Kong
Singapore
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Malta
Bermuda
Simon's Bay
Distances
 
As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919

Chart - Simon's Town Area

Port and Harbour Details for Cape Station

CAPE STATION.

CAPE COAST CASTLE (BRITISH GOLD COAST, W. AFRICA). Fortified coaling station. Anchorage average 28 feet.

PORT STANLEY (FALKLAND IS.) Good deep harbour. Fortified coaling station.

ST. HELENA. Fortified coaling station. 10-fathom harbour.

SIERRA LEONE (W. AFRICA). Fortified coaling station. Anchorage, 6-16 fathoms.

SIMON'S BAY (CAPE of GOOD HOPE). Naval dockyard. Selborne Dock, 750 x 95 x 36 feet. (Dreadnought.) Tidal basin, 28 acres, 30 feet deep. Fortified moderately. Admiralty Chart No. 1849. There is a dock at Capetown, 500 x 66 x 24½ feet, and a floating one at Durban, 425 x 70 x 23 feet.,

AUSTRALIA.

(See Royal Australian Navy Section).

NEW ZEALAND.

(See New Zealand Section),.

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