 The city was also home to the Royal Naval Engineering College ; opened in 1880 in Keyham , it trained engineering students for five years before they completed the remaining two years of the course at Greenwich . The college closed in 1910 , but in 1940 a new college opened at Manadon . This was renamed Dockyard Technical College in 1959 before finally closing in 1994 ; training was transferred to the University of Southampton . 
