sheerness

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HMS Plym set sail from Chatham to Sheerness, where the bomb was loaded, on her way to the Monte Bello Islands for Operation Hurricane.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2022

Chase Silverstein, from Sheerness, told the BBC the grass caught fire a short while later.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2022

Many people trace Sheppey’s decline to the closure of the Sheerness Naval Dockyard in 1960, which threw thousands out of work.

From Reuters • Mar. 26, 2021

The officer got better and took Talbor to see the English King Charles II, then visiting the port city of Sheerness.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2020

In another half-hour every flag was down, and the Sheerness, at length coming up, chased and captured one of the runaways; so the "bag" was one sunk and six captured.

From Privateers and Privateering by Statham, E. P.