Sheerness
Americannoun
noun
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It launched the scheme in 2007 after dozens of protests, with about 1,000 ASW workers in Cardiff, Belfast and Sheerness, Kent, losing pensions they had been paying into for decades.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2024
There will be no service on the Sheerness line after 10:00 for the rest of the day, and there are cancellations on the high speed line to and from London St Pancras throughout the day.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023
HMS Plym set sail from Chatham to Sheerness, where the bomb was loaded, on her way to the Monte Bello Islands for Operation Hurricane.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2022
Six men - including a security guard - were arrested after 100 officers swooped at Sheerness port in the early hours of Monday.
From BBC • Dec. 21, 2021
She was lying at Sheerness, thirty miles below, and the cable had to be put on board of lighters and taken down to where she lay in the stream.
From The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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