Dunwich Shipyard

Dunwich Shipyard is an Imperial Navy orbital outpost in the Innsmouth Sector of Ultima Segmentum. The outpost and its assigned vessels fall under the command of Battlefleet Ultima's Naval Reserve.

Dunwich Shipyard was built in late M32 as part of Battlefleet Ultima's reconstruction program following the War of the Beast. It served as a frontier command outpost for several millennia before being downgraded to a Naval Reserve storage depot around the middle of M41. The station's complement of Navy and Mechanicus personnel was reduced from 25,000 to a skeleton force of 3,000 dedicated to maintaining the appropriate storage rituals of the fleet hulks stored within its anchorage.

The station's low position in orbit around Dunwich IV exposes both the outpost and the vessels under its care to high levels of atomic oxygen. The void shields of the outpost protect its surface from the effects of this exposure; however, the non-voided hulks at anchor are forced to weather the elements, resulting in a characteristic surface layer of rust in their ferrocrete superstructures. It was however decided that the negative of causing surface damage to the hulks was outweighed by the benefit of the greater difficulty needed to reach the station, thus improving the security of the facility and its anchored reserve.

As of M42, there are known to be at least three vessels on the Dunwich reserve list;

Imperialis Maximus - an Armageddon-class Battlecruiser.

Commodore Levitus - an XXX XXX

Glorious Vindication - an XXX XXX