Historical place archive

Sheerness in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Sheerness in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records3 event labels2 people1901–1914

Historical events in Sheerness

1901

May 1901
HMS Immortalité Command Assumed
Sackville Hamilton Carden · Military

Carden takes command of HMS Immortalité, the seagoing tender to Wildfire at Sheerness.

May 1901
Sheerness Tender Duties Begin
Sackville Hamilton Carden · Military

As captain of Immortalité, Carden performs seagoing tender duties for the Sheerness flagship establishment.

1914

26 November 1914
HMS Bulwark Explosion Reported
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · World War, 1st

The Admiralty reports the destruction of HMS Bulwark after an internal explosion at Sheerness.

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Sheerness. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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