Sheerness Dockyard

Sheerness Royal Dockyard is located on the Isle of Sheppey, at the mouth of the River Medway and a few miles south of the Nore anchorage. It is one of six Royal Dockyards, the others being Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth.

Sheerness Dockyard is notable for the town outside its gates, known as Blue Town due to the number of houses and other buildings that were painted with Board of Ordnance blue paint.

HMS Hyperion was launched at Sheerness in 1788.