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

People living near Marine Parade, in Sheerness, were told to close windows and doors due to the smoke during the night.

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

He could not return to London that day: that was as clear as the sun at noon,—although the "fulcrum" question was become so disastrously dim, since he left Chatham and Sheerness.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas