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Nelson's Dockyard Officers Quarters
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| The Officers Quarters, Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua |
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The Officer Quarters at Nelson's Dockyard were built around 1810. Upstairs are a row of rooms used for housing ship's officers during the hurricane season or when ships were being repaired. On the ground floor there are 12 water cisterns holding some 1,200 tons of water. Today the Naval Officers Quarters are used for restaurants and shops.
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Nelson's Dockyard main buildings: Naval Officers House (1855), Officers Quarters (1810), Cordage and Canvas Store (begun in 1778), Copper and Lumber Store (1789), the Boat House and Joiners Loft (1778), Pay Office (1807), the Boat House, Wet Dock and Sail Loft (1796), Seaman's Gallery (1778) and the Pitch and Tar Store (1788) and Fort Berkeley guarding the entrance to English Harbour.
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