The Navy Yard at Kingston as described by Henry Tudor around 1831-1832

See also the several descriptions made by visitors to the navy yards of the United States in the first half of the 19th century on this weblog.

P. 290: “Kingston is a naval and military station belonging to his majesty, possessing a spacious and

p. 291: excellent harbour, and was a place of considerable importance during the war, of which its navy-yard affords ample demonstration. Here are seen several large ships, one or two of them having been destined to carry 100 guns each, for the purpose of contesting, during that period, the supremacy of the lake. They are now falling, unsheltered from the weather, into inglorious decay, and are doomed, at no distant day, to be broken up for firewood. The first sight of these noble vessels, rotting on their stocks, as fast as time and the elements could effect it, was rather melancholy; but this was soon effaced by the moral consideration which the scene suggested—that of the good understanding now subsisting between the former belligerents; for, to a well-disposed mind, there can be no hesitation as to choosing between peace and plenty with rottenness of ships, and the horrors of war though with a gallant navy.”

Source

Henry Tudor. Narrative of a tour in North America: comprising Mexico, the mines of real del Monte, the United States, and the British colonies: with an excursion to the island of Cuba. Vol 1. London, 1834.