in 1880 a royal naval engineering college was established at keyham, housed in a new building just outside the dockyard wall alongside the quadrangle where students (who joined at 15 years of age) gained hands-on experience of the latest naval engineering techniques. the engineering college moved to nearby manadon in 1958; the jacobethan-style building then went on to house the dockyard technical college for a time, but was demolished in 1985.