Sheerness

Sheerness is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, England. It is the largest town on the island with a population of about 20,000.

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Sheerness was the focus of an attack by the Dutch navy in June 1667, when 72 hostile ships during the Raid on the Medway compelled the little "sandspit fort", to surrender and landed a force which for a short while occupied the town. Impressed by the civil behavior of the Dutch marines - they paid for their dinner - the town reinvited the Dutch Marine Corps for the third centennial of the raid. Pepys at Gravesend remarked in his diary "we do plainly at this time hear the guns play" and in fear departed to Brampton in Huntingdonshire.

Isle of Sheppey: The Isle of Sheppey is a small (36 square miles, 94 km?) island off the northern coast of Kent in the Thames Estuary, some 25 miles (40km) to the east of central London. Sheppey is derived from the ancient Saxon "Sceapige", meaning isle of sheep, and even today the extensive marshes which make up ...

Kent: :This article is about the English county of Kent. See also Kent (disambiguation)....

England: :For an explanation of often confusing terms like England, (Great) Britain and United Kingdom see British Isles (terminology)....

Sheerness related Images and Photos (experimental)

From Sheerness to Valentia a Group of Figures on Board the "Great Eastern"