sheerness

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The ship which grounded on a sandbank near Sheerness, Kent in World War Two is decaying.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2024

Six men - including a security guard - were arrested after 100 officers swooped at Sheerness port in the early hours of Monday.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2021

Imported cars are parked in a storage area at Sheerness port, Sheerness, Britain, October 24, 2017.

From Reuters • Sep. 7, 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

At Halifax and afterwards at Sheerness, as resident commissioner, he was employed till April 1804, when appointed rear admiral he hoisted his flag on the Gladiator, and the following month was created a baronet.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.