this page lists locations mentioned in the documents.
| location | Description |
| Beauport | Beauport is a borough of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on the Saint Lawrence River, established in 1634. |
| Blockhouse | Fort Blockhouse, Gosport |
| Burrough Fort | A small fort built on Burrough Island, now known as Burrow Island or Rat Island. The fort itself was also known as Fort James. |
| Calshot Castle | an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII on the Calshot Spit, Hampshire, England, between 1539 and 1540. |
| Carisbrook Castle | a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in the village of Carisbrooke (near Newport), Isle of Wight, England. Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial. |
| Cowes Castle | Cowes Castle, also known as West Cowes Castle, is a Device Fort in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Originally built by Henry VIII in 1539 to protect England against the threat of invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire. |
| Downs, The | A roadstead (area of sheltered, favourable sea) in the southern North Sea near the English Channel off the east Kent coast, between the North and the South Foreland in southern England. In 1639 the Battle of the Downs took place here, when the Dutch navy destroyed a Spanish fleet which had sought refuge in neutral English waters. From the Elizabethan era onwards, the presence of the Downs helped to make Deal one of the premier ports in England, and in the 19th century, it was equipped with its own telegraph and Timeball tower to enable ships to set their marine chronometers. |
| English Harbour | English Harbour is a natural harbour and settlement on the island of Antigua in the Caribbean, in the extreme south of the island. The settlement takes its name from the nearby harbour in which the Royal Navy established its base of operations for the area during the eighteenth century. |
| Greenwich | Greenwich Dockyard did not exist as such, Henry VIII ordered the building of Deptford and Woolwich yards as they were near to his home at Greenwich. The palace stood on the site of the Royal Naval Colledge. |
| Hurst Castle | Hurst Castle is an artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire, England, between 1541 and 1544. It formed part of the king’s Device Forts coastal protection programme against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the western entrance to the Solent waterway. Wikipedia |
| Key Gate | King George’s Gate, or Quay Gate: Stood on the West side of Oyster Street/Prospect Row opposite King Street in Old Portsmouth. The fish market now stands approximately where the gate would have been. |
| Leeward Islands | a group of islands situated where the north-eastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. |
| Main, The | Former province of northwest France south of Normandy. |
| Nore, The | A submerged sandbank that’s situated just to the east of the area of water between Shoeburyness in Essex and Sheerness in Kent and is the point where the Thames Estuary ends and the North Sea begins. |
| Portland Castle | Portland Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. |
| Sandham Castle | Castle at Sandown Isle of wight by Henry VIII |
| Spithead | Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Gosport, Hampshire, England. It is protected from all winds except those from the southeast. RN Vessels would moor at Spithead instead of entering Portsmouth Harbour. |
| Tower, The | The Tower of London |
| Woolwich | Woolwich arsenal, London. |