Sheerness Dockyard

HM Dockyard, Sheerness
Part of Nore Command
Sheerness, Kent
View from Garrison Point Fort across the Gun Wharf and Boat Pond, Sheerness Dockyard, 1941.
Site information
OperatorRoyal Navy
Controlled byThe Navy Board (until 1832); the Admiralty (after 1832).
ConditionPart-preserved
Site history
In use1665-1960
FateNow in use as a commercial port
EventsRaid on the Medway, 1667

Sheerness Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the Sheerness peninsula, at the mouth of the River Medway in Kent. It was opened in the 1660s and closed in 1960.


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