View from Garrison Point Fort across the Gun Wharf and Boat Pond, Sheerness Dockyard, 1941.
Site information
Operator
Royal Navy
Controlled by
The Navy Board (until 1832); the Admiralty (after 1832).
Condition
Part-preserved
Site history
In use
1665-1960
Fate
Now in use as a commercial port
Events
Raid 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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