King’s Wharf is the largest cruise port in Bermuda, located on the western tip of the island and often referred to as the West End or the Royal Naval Dockyard. A strategic British naval base, the Royal Naval Dockyard, along with its King’s Wharf pier, was built by convicts shipped over from England in the early 1800s. King’s Wharf and the dockyard operated for over 100 years, and was once Britain’s largest naval base outside the United Kingdom. From the War of 1812 until just after the Second World War, it played a vital part in the strategic defense of the Western Atlantic.