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    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...
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    century, Sheerness acquired the added attractions of a seaside resort. Industry retains its important place in the town and the Port of Sheerness is one...
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    Sheerness Dockyard. At this time, all trains had to run first to the Dockyard station, then reverse (after the engine had changed ends) to Sheerness-on-Sea...
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    Navy Board approved Sheerness as a site for a new dockyard, and building work began; but in 1667 the still-incomplete Sheerness Dockyard was captured by the...
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    Sheerness Dockyard railway station was the original terminus of the Sheerness line. It was built by the Sittingbourne & Sheerness Railway and opened in...
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    78, Sheerness Dockyard (also known as Boat Store Number 78 or simply Sheerness Boat Store) is a disused industrial building at Sheerness Dockyard, on...
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    in 1897 and completed in December 1902. Sheerness Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the Sheerness peninsula, at the mouth of the River Medway...
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  • HMS Queenborough (1671), a yacht built at Chatham Dockyard in 1671. She was rebuilt at Sheerness Dockyard in 1718, and was sold on 11 July 1771. HMS Queenborough (1694)...
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    Hulk (ship type) (redirect from Sheer hulk)
    hulks A fleet of ships and hulks in Portsmouth harbour Sheer hulk at Sheerness Dockyard positioned to make a lift Model of the decommissioned 50-gun ship...
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    Royal Navy Dockyards (more usually termed Royal Dockyards) were state-owned harbour facilities where ships of the Royal Navy were built, based, repaired...
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    Nelson's Dockyard is a cultural heritage site and marina in English Harbour, located in Saint Paul Parish on the Caribbean island of Antigua, in Antigua...
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  • Alberta Sheerness Generating Station, coal fired power plant in Alberta Sheerness Dockyard, a naval dockyard in Sheerness, England Sheerness East railway...
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    into Sheerness Dockyard, before being re-registered in August 1779 as the fireship Comet. In December 1780 she was sold into private hands at Sheerness Dockyard...
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  • Sheerness Dockyard in July 1813 HMS Indefatigable Built at: Henry Adams's yard, Bucklers Hard Launched: July 1784 Converted at: Portsmouth Dockyard Converted:...
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  • May 1660 and blown up at Sheerness on 2 December 1673. She was ordered on 15 February 1697 to be built at Sheerness Dockyard under the guidance of Master...
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    Completed: 18 January 1759 at Deptford Dockyard. Fate: Renamed Guernsey on 7 May 1800. Taken to pieces at Sheerness Dockyard in April 1801. Niger Ordered: 19...
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    Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich...
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    Williams. The ship, however, was not laid down until May 1771 at Sheerness Dockyard and was launched on 25 October 1775. Commissioned that same month...
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    a 20-gun sixth-rate ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1699-1700 at Sheerness Dockyard by Master Shipwright William Lee to a design by Rear-Admiral the Marquis...
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    Chatham Dockyard. She was never commissioned for sea service; on completion of construction the new vessel was immediately placed in reserve at Sheerness Dockyard...
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    1764 Built by: Sheerness Dockyard. Keel laid: June 1764 Launched: 23 August 1766 Completed: 11 August 1767 Fate: Sold at Deptford Dockyard on 28 April 1813...
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    HMS Leopard (1790) (category Ships built in Sheerness)
    Portsmouth Dockyard in January 1776. She was reordered in May 1785, ten years after having first been laid down, and construction began at Sheerness Dockyard on...
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    he was Commissioner at Sheerness Dockyard, and from 1806 until his death in 1828 he was Commissioner at Portsmouth Dockyard. Grey was born at the family...
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    sold to the ship-breaker John Beatson, the ship had been lying at Sheerness Dockyard, and was then moved to his wharf at Rotherhithe, then in Surrey but...
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    Prospective: Sheerness Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 34. August 1911. p. 15. "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Sheerness Dockyard"....
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    Sheerness Steelworks was a steel plant located at Sheerness, on the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent, England. The plant opened in 1971 and produced steel via...
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    Sheerness Dockyard where the gunboat was repaired. In August 1909, Pathfinder, now leader of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, was under refit at Sheerness...
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  • officer who was Captain Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard 1899–1902, Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard 1902–1905, and Admiral Commanding, Coastguards...
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    HMS Rattler (1843) (category Ships built in Sheerness)
    Sheerness Dockyard on 12 March 1841. She was reordered on 24 February 1842 as a propeller type 9-gun (867-ton BM type) sloop from HM Royal Dockyard,...
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    (launched in 1968). The yard was known as HM Dockyard, Plymouth until 1843, when it was renamed HM Dockyard, Devonport. (In the late 20th century, here...
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