In March 1933, the firm moved to Portsmouth and, in the following year, became associated with the Tyneside ship builder Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited and became Airspeed ( 1934 ) Limited in August 1934.

Due to the efforts of Governor McLane, the State of New Hampshire along with Portsmouth and its citizens became the unlikely host for the first international treaty to be signed in the United States.

At the state-sponsored facility, which was named Jamestown Festival Park, later renamed Jamestown Settlement, full-sized replicas of the three ships that brought the colonists, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery were constructed at a shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and docked at Jamestown, where became a permanent attraction to be both toured, and seen by water from the nearby Jamestown Ferry system operated by VDOT, and relocated for the festival to nearby Glass House Point.

Formed in 1691 in the Virginia Colony, Norfolk County had originally included essentially all the area which became the towns and later cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and South Norfolk, but had seen its area frequently reduced as these cities added territory through annexations after 1871.

The first county fair was held in 1828 ; in 1908 Lucasville became the official site when three fairs ( Mount Joy, Portsmouth and Lucasville ) merged into one.

In 1679, Portsmouth became the colonial capital.

Scio House was the last villa on Portsmouth Road abutting the heath: it eventually became a hospital and was known as Scio House Hospital for Officers, Putney.

Wildcroft Road, turning into Portsmouth Road and thus the future A3, was a main thoroughfare into SW London and became a stop-off point for American serviceman who alighted from their jeeps to " taste this crazy cricket game "

In the 18th century the Dog and Fox public house became a stop on the stagecoach run from London to Portsmouth, then in 1838 the London and South Western Railway ( L & SWR ) opened a station to the south east of the village at the bottom of Wimbledon hill.

The Tsar became impatient, stepping up pressure on Britain by despatching in October 1826 a naval squadron to the Mediterranean from St Petersburg, which pointedly visited the British naval base of Portsmouth en route.

The land was sold in 1797 to George Wentworth of Portsmouth and operated as an unorganized ' plantation ' from 1797 – 1881 ; town was incorporated, 1881 – 1966, then became an organized ' township '.

By the end of the 19th Century, Portsmouth became one of the most important cities between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

With arrival of British troops in Newport in late 1776, Stiles left Newport and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire from 1777 until 1778, when he became president of Yale until his death.

* Thomas Charles Bruce ( 1825 ), who became MP for Portsmouth

In June 1878, he was promoted to sub-lieutenant, and after two years at the naval gunnery school in Portsmouth, he became a lieutenant and left for the Mediterranean Fleet.

After studying at Portsmouth Northern Grammar School ( now the Mayfield School ) and reading archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, he became a lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1963.

The events became popular via word-of-mouth, leading the band to play at other ' Cutting Edge ' events along the south coast of England – monthly events in Portsmouth and Southampton.

Charlie was a skilled all-round athlete, who had played college football for The Ohio State University Buckeyes, and had gone on to play semi-professional football under an assumed name for the Portsmouth Spartans ( which later became the NFL's Detroit Lions ).

In 1946 the girls schools became the Portsmouth Southern Grammar School for Girls.

With increasing traffic, the by-pass itself became a bottleneck, particularly at its junction with the A333 Portsmouth Road.

In 1786 he became Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth holding that post until 1789.

He became Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth again in June 1792.

The few hundred colonists of Rhode Island became an island colony for a time as their capital at Providence was sacked and burned and the colonists were driven back to Newport and Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island.

* The second was a Los Angeles-class attack submarine, decommissioned in November 2006 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

While organizing a second campaign in Portsmouth in 1628, he was stabbed to death, on August 23, at the Greyhound Pub.

This reached a peak at the so-called ' Battle of Havant ', but from 1859 the new Portsmouth Direct Line was bought-out by the LSWR, providing the company with a second main line to the south coast.

The second of the plantation colonies on the mainland ( following Anne Hutchinson ’ s 1638 colony of Portsmouth and the 1639 colony of Newport founded by Coddington and Clarke ; both on Aquidneck or Rhode Island ) was Samuel Gorton ’ s Shawomet Purchase of 1642 from the Narragansetts.

* The second Marigold was a 3-gun hoy, a 42-ton vessel built at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1653 and broken up in 1712.

The second one, led by William Feilding, Earl of Denbigh, left on April 1628, but returned without a fight to Portsmouth, as Denbigh " said that he had no commission to hazard the king's ships in a fight and returned shamefully to Portsmouth ".

League football was suspended during World War I, but following the resumption of matches Portsmouth won the Southern League for the second time.

On 25 October 2008, Redknapp left Portsmouth for a second time, leaving his assistant Tony Adams to be promoted to the managerial role.

On 17 February, Portsmouth went into administration for the second time in two years, bringing them an automatic 10-point deduction.

At both Portsmouth and Cirencester, Hammond excelled at sports including cricket ( playing for the Portsmouth Grammar School second eleven ), football and fives.

Ronaldo's 2007 – 08 season began with a red card for a headbutt on Portsmouth player Richard Hughes during United's second match of the season, for which he was punished with a three-match ban.

In 1547 Jillingham ( Gillingham ) water, as Chatham Dockyard was then known, is mentioned as second only in importance to Deptford ; followed by Woolwich, Portsmouth and Harwich.

* 7 December 2005 — Harry Redknapp is appointed manager of Portsmouth for the second time with a contract until the end of the season.

The second Round Table club opened soon after in Portsmouth and then the idea really took off — by the time the Second World War broke out in 1939 there were 125 clubs and 4, 600 members.

While in his second spell at Portsmouth, he managed the side that won the 2008 FA Cup.

His second competitive goal for Portsmouth came when he scored in a 4 – 1 League Cup win against Hereford on 25 August 2009.

As Portsmouth could not afford to fulfil the original offer and he was not prepared to accept alternative terms, he remained at Portsmouth without playing in the second half of the 2010 – 11 season.

He later played for West Ham United on two separate occasions ( receiving an FA Cup Runner-up medal during his second term in 2006 ) and also Portsmouth ( where he won the 1st Division in 2002 / 03 ).

" He was sent off for violent conduct in his second appearance for Portsmouth in a 2 – 0 defeat away at Preston and made only one further appearance in the 2001 – 02 season.

He scored the winning goal against West Bromwich Albion in manager Harry Redknapp's second game on returning to Portsmouth in December 2005 and scored crucial goals against West Ham, Blackburn Rovers and Sunderland as Portsmouth battled against and survived relegation.

In January 2009, Pennant was loaned out to Portsmouth, where he spent the second half of the 2008 – 09 season.