English Harbour

The Royal Navy began using this inlet in 1725 and spent the rest of the century building a dockyard in it, where Horatio Nelson served three years from 1784 as a captain who neither commanded nor built the place that now bears his name. The navy left in 1889 and the buildings decayed for sixty years before restoration began in 1951; the harbour works again, though not continuously, and UNESCO inscribed it in 2016.