Sheerness Dockyard.

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Circa Jul 1801 R.-Adm. Rowley is to superintend the payment of his Majesty's ships at Chatham and Sheerness.

Circa Jul 1801 Mr. Maddock, Boat-builder, at Portsmouth Dockyard, and Mr. Perkins, at Portsmouth Dockyard, to be Assistants at Sheerness Dockyard.

Circa Jul 1801 N. Didams, Esq. First Assistant, at Portsmouth, to be Builder at Sheerness.

30 Aug 1801 arrived Sheerness from the River 19 hired gun barges, commanded by Lieutenants and manned by Sea Fencibles.

18 May 1802 it is reported that all the Dockyards are to be reduced to the Peace Establishment, following the signing of the Treaty of the Peace of Amiens.

8 Jun 1802 following the recent incendiary attack, which caused such a dreadful fire at Woolwich Warren, and so much damage, the Admiralty has ordered that in future only visitors on business were to be admitted to HM Dockyards in future, the same ruling also being applicable to premises occupied by the Victualling Board / Office &c. Similarly ship's boats were only to use the appropriate steps in the future.

22 Nov 1802 Surgeon J. Stephenson, Esq., late of Haslar Hospital, is appointed to succeed Dr White, Surgeon of the Dockyard at Sheerness.

22 Nov 1802 Dr White, Surgeon of the Dockyard at Sheerness, is removed to Chatham.

30 Dec 1802 the Navy Board has ordered that two thirds of the pay for apprentices entered into the Dockyard will now be paid to the Master, instead of the whole sum, and the remaining one third will now be paid to the parents or guardians of the apprentice, to be spent on food and maintenance &c.

13 Jan 1803 an order has been received not to break up any more ships of the line.

11 Feb 1803 the greatest attention is paid, it appears, to the orders for fulfilling the contracts for naval stores at the different Dockyards, agreeably to some late regulations, as they are constantly receiving supplies to complete the establishment laid down, by which means we shall at all times be ready to equip our fleet in cases of unexpected necessity.

24 Feb 1803 the new pier at Sheerness that it is supposed it will open about the 25th of next month.

23 Mar 1803 2 companies of shipwrights arrived Sheerness from Deptford, to forward the equipment of the fleet.

2 Mar 1822 it was reported at Portsmouth that Sheerness Dockyard has been placed under the superintendence of the Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard.

Circa Jan 1831 John Miller, Esq. of the Admiralty office, is appointed Timber and Store Receiver of the Dock-yard at Sheerness, in the room of the late George Wm. Kingdom, Esq.

28 May 1832 John Gaze, Esq., is appointed Master Attendant at Sheerness Dockyard.

3 Jan 1842, Yesterday the master shipwrights, Mr. Oliver Lang, of Woolwich Dockyard ; Mr. John Fincham, of Chatham Dockyard ; Mr. James Atkins, of Sheerness Dockyard ; Mr. Richard Blake, of Portsmouth Dockyard ; Mr. Thomas F. Hawkes, of Plymouth Dockyard ; and Mr. Roberts, late of Devonport Dockyard, assembled at Woolwich Dockyard to decide upon the plans which it would be most desirable to adhere to in future as a fixed principle for building vessels for Her Majesty's Navy.
This resolution on the part of the Admiralty will prevent all chances of difference of opinion on such matters, and prevent the possibility of the work of one Mast Shipwright being altered or condemned when the vessel is sent to any other dockyard than the one where she was constructed, for repair, which has sometimes been the case on former occasions.

10 Dec 1842 W. Lockyer Freeman Esq., apptd. Store Receiver at Sheerness Dockyard, vice Vinter, removed to Portsmouth.

25 Dec 1841 Captain P. Fisher, appointed to the Ocean, and Superintendent of Sheerness yard.

11 Oct 1861 Increase of the Salary of Master Attendant of Sheerness Dock Yard to �600.

11 Oct 1861 Increase of the Salary of Assistant Master Attendant of Sheerness Dock Yard to �500.