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.
View from Garrison Point Fort across the Gun Wharf and Boat Pond, Sheerness Dockyard, 1941.
The fifth-rate HMS Clyde (left) and a sheer hulk (right) off Sheerness Dockyard at the time of the Nore Mutiny, 1797.
Sir Bernard De Gomme's 1667 design for a new fort at Sheerness, surrounding the original (1665) dockyard. (North is to the left).
Dutch newsprint illustration showing the raiders raising the Dutch flag over the fort at Sheerness (left) and beyond it the dockyard in flames.
Royal Navy Dockyards were state-owned harbour facilities where ships of the Royal Navy were built, based, repaired and refitted. Until the mid-19th century the Royal Dockyards were the largest industrial complexes in Britain.
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, founded 1496, still in service as a Naval Base.
Careening wharf and storehouses built by the Royal Navy in the 1760s, Illa Pinto, Port Mahon, Menorca.
18th-century storehouse, 19th-century dry dock and 20th-century warship preserved at Chatham
Barracks accommodation alongside No.5 Basin and the former coaling wharf at Devonport
