HMS Sheerness was a fifth rate built under the 1689 programme built at Sheerness Dockyard. Her guns were listed under old terms for guns as demi-culverines...
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have borne the name HMS Sheerness, after the town of Sheerness in Kent, once home to one of the navy's dockyards: HMS Sheerness (1673) was a 2-gun smack...
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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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breakwater at Sheerness in 1749. She was raised and broken up in 1762. HMS Chatham (1716) was a 4-gun yacht launched in 1716 and sold in 1742. HMS Chatham (1741)...
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HMS Scarborough was a 32 gun fifth-rate ship built at the Sheerness Dockyard and launched by the Royal Navy in 1711. Her captain was Tobias Hume. In 1717...
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borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch: HMS Despatch (1691) was a 2-gun brigantine launched in 1691 and sold in 1712. HMS Despatch (1745)...
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1743 HMS Sheerness 1743 HMS Wager 1744 HMS Shoreham 1744 HMS Bridgewater 1744 HMS Glasgow 1745 HMS Triton 1745 HMS Mercury 1745 HMS Surprise 1746 HMS Siren...
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(1706) 42-gun ship at Sheerness HMS Ludlow Castle (1707) 42-gun frigate at Sheerness HMS Adventure (1709) 42-gun frigate at Sheerness HMS Delight (1709) 14-gun...
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Chatham Dockyard (section Sheerness)
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...
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Point on 30 March 1691 and expended on 19 November 1693 at St Malo. She was ordered on 12 March 1838 with her laid in September at Sheerness Dockyard. She...
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