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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHEERNESS

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 822 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHEERNESS , a garrison town and naval seaport in the
Faversham
  parliamentary division of Kent, England, in the Isle of Sheppey, on the right bank of the Medway estuary at its junction with the Thames, 51 M. E. of London by the
South
 -Eastern & Chatham railway. Pop. of urban
district
  (19o1) 18,179. Blue Town, the older
part
  of the town, with the dock-yard, is defended by strong modern-built fortifications, especially the forts of Garrison Point and
Barton
 's Point, commanding the entrance of both the Thames and the Medway. The dockyard, chiefly used for naval repairs, covers about 6o acres, and consists of three basins and large docks, the depth of water in the basins ranging down to 26 ft. Within the yard there are extensive naval stores and barracks. Outside the dockyard are the residences of the
admiral
  of the
home
 
fleet
  and other
officers
 , and barracks. The harbour is spacious, sheltered, and deepeven at low water. Sheerness has some
trade
  in corn and seed, and there is steamboat connexion with Port Victoria, on the opposite side of the Medway; with Southend, on the opposite side of the Thames; and with Chatham and London, and the town is in some favour as a seaside resort. A small fort was built at Sheerness by Charles II., which, on the loth of July 1667, was taken by the Dutch
fleet
  under De Ruyter.


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