Isle of Sheppey News
Tim Bell of the Isle of Sheppey Sailing Club invites sponsorship of the Round the Island Race on 7 September. It would help the race if as many as possible nominate it for the Yachts and...
Category: History/archaeology
Deadman’s Island: The River Medway Estuary as London’s Quarantine area
After an outbreak of epidemic plague in the Baltic Sea ports, the Stangate Creek area in the Medway Estuary in North Kent was designated a quarantine site for cargo ships destined for London in...
Meet James Wharram at Queenborough on 19 April 2013
Queenborough Harbour Trust is proud to say James Wharram will be coming to Queenborough on Friday 19/04/13 and will be giving a talk about the Lapita Voyage. This voyage demonstrates that the Polynesians were capable...
Buried warship identified at Chatham
Painstaking detective work has finally identified the 18th century ship found in pieces under the floor of the Wheelwrights’ Shop at the Chatham Historic Dockyard: Read more…
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