Pale limestone fortress walls and cannon ramparts rise above a harbor lined with stone warehouses.
What Royal Naval Dockyard looks like
is a walled fortress of pale Bermuda limestone, with seven bastions lettered A to G and ramparts that carry cannon. Its gate crosses a moat on a footbridge into a yard with buildings along three sides and palm trees beside a paved path. Chimneys rise above the roofs of the buildings around the yard. From the ramparts the open sea lies beyond the walls.
sits at the center of the Keep and dates from the 1820s. It is a white house with columned verandas, set on a grassy rise above the rampart wall.
The has two 100-foot towers that stand taller than the warehouses around them. Inside, the building is now shops and restaurants on restored cobblestone floors between wrought iron pillars.
Cruise ships berth at , the island's biggest cruise pier. Lamp posts line the quay, and at night a lit cruise ship sits alongside.
Shot in Royal Naval Dockyard
The Deep (1977) shot in the Queen's Exhibition Hall, a hall inside the Keep. The production dressed it as the fictional Hamilton Library.
The Deep, 1977
Queen's Exhibition Hall
Played the Hamilton Library, Hamilton, Bermuda, 1970s
The Hamilton Library scene, with David looking over Treece's Treasure, was filmed in the hall in October 1976. The production left many of the museum's real exhibits in place.
What Royal Naval Dockyard can double for
Birgu in Malta
Birgu is an old fortified city on the south side of the Grand Harbor, with the bastioned Fort Saint Angelo at the head of its promontory. Both places pair a walled harbor fortress with a waterfront, which is the Keep's relationship to the Dockyard quays. The Valletta skyline across the water would date a wide frame, so keep the shot on the walls and the fort. Try searching bastioned harbor fort now.
Nelson's Dockyard in English Harbour, Antigua
Nelson's Dockyard is a Georgian-era naval dockyard in English Harbour. It still works as a marina. Fort Berkeley sits on a peninsula at the harbor entrance, a fort and a dockyard in one frame, as the Keep and the quay are. Marina yachts and tropical planting would give the place away in a wide shot, so frame tight on the fort and the harbor edge. Try searching Georgian dockyard English Harbour now.
