Sheerness Royal Dockyard

Shipbuilding

Ship	Type	Launched	Fate
H.M.S. Briton	corvette	6 Nov, 1869	Sold 1887
H.M.S. Encounter	corvette	1 Jan, 1873	Sold 1888
H.M.S. Diamond	corvette	26 Aug, 1874	Sold 1889
H.M.S. Osprey	composite screw sloop	5 Aug, 1876	Sold 1890
H.M.S. Gannet	composite screw sloop	31 Aug, 1878	Preserved 2015
H.M.S. Kingfisher	composite screw sloop	16 Dec, 1879	Sold 1919
H.M.S. Satellite	corvette	13 Aug, 1881	Sold 1904
H.M.S. Caroline	corvette	25 Nov, 1882	Sold 1929
H.M.S. Pylades	corvette	5 Nov, 1884	Sold 1906
H.M.S. Swallow	screw sloop	27 Oct, 1885	Sold 1904
H.M.S. Buzzard	screw sloop	10 May, 1887	Sold 1921
H.M.S. Grasshopper	torpedo gunboat	30 Aug, 1887	Sold 1905
H.M.S. Daphne	screw sloop	29 May, 1888	Sold 1904
H.M.S. Pigmy	gunboat	27 Jul, 1888	Sold 4 Apr, 1905
H.M.S. Basilisk	screw sloop	6 Apr, 1889	Sold 1905
H.M.S. Barracouta	third class protected cruiser	16 May, 1889	Sold 1905
H.M.S. Goldfinch	gunboat	18 May, 1889	Sold 14 May, 1907
H.M.S. Gleaner	torpedo gunboat	9 Jan, 1890	Sold 4 Apr, 1905
H.M.S. Gossamer	torpedo gunboat	9 Jan, 1890	Sold 20 Mar, 1920
H.M.S. Brilliant	second class protected cruiser	24 Jun, 1891	Blockship 23 Apr, 1918
H.M.S. Circe	torpedo gunboat	14 Jun, 1892	Sold 30 Jul, 1920
H.M.S. Hebe	torpedo gunboat	15 Jun, 1892	Sold 22 Oct, 1919
H.M.S. Alarm	torpedo gunboat	13 Sep, 1892	Sold 9 Apr, 1907
H.M.S. Leda	torpedo gunboat	13 Sep, 1892	Broken up 1922
H.M.S. Charybdis	second class protected cruiser	15 Jun, 1893	Sold 27 Jan, 1922
H.M.S. Alert	screw sloop	28 Dec, 1894	Sold 1926
H.M.S. Torch	screw sloop	28 Dec, 1894	Sold 1920
H.M.S. Proserpine	third class protected cruiser	5 Dec, 1896	Sold 30 Nov, 1919
H.M.S. Pelorus	third class protected cruiser	15 Dec, 1896	Sold 6 May, 1920
H.M.S. Pomone	third class protected cruiser	25 Nov, 1897	Sold 25 Oct, 1922
H.M.S. Condor	sloop	17 Dec, 1898	Foundered 3 Dec, 1901
H.M.S. Rosario	sloop	17 Dec, 1898	Sold 11 Nov, 1921
H.M.S. Shearwater	sloop	10 Feb, 1900	Sold May, 1922
H.M.S. Vestal	sloop	10 Feb, 1900	Sold 21 Oct, 1921
H.M.S. Espiegle	sloop	8 Dec, 1900	Sold 17 Sep, 1923
H.M.S. Fantome	sloop	23 Mar, 1901	Sold 30 Jan, 1925
H.M.S. Merlin	sloop	30 Nov, 1901	Sold 3 Aug, 1923
H.M.S. Odin	sloop	30 Nov, 1901	Sold 12 Nov, 1920
H.M.S. Clio	sloop	14 Mar, 1903	Sold 12 Nov, 1920
H.M.S. Cadmus	sloop	29 Apr, 1903	Sold 1 Sep, 1921

Captains Superintendent

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain The Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, 1 January, 1869
• Captain William G. Luard, 11 May, 1870
• Captain Fitzgerald A. C. Foley, 9 January, 1875 – 1877
• Captain Thomas Brandreth, 9 January, 1877 – 4 January, 1879
• Captain Theodore M. Jones, 4 January, 1879 – 1 January, 1883
• Captain John O. Hopkins, January, 1883 – c. 6 April, 1883^[Inference]
• Captain William Codrington, 6 April, 1883 – 17 July, 1885
• Captain Henry F. Nicholson, 17 July, 1885 – 1 July, 1886
• Captain Robert H. M. Molyneux, 1 July, 1886
• Captain Charles G. Fane, 1 June, 1888
• Captain Richard Duckworth-King, 1 August, 1890 – 17 January, 1892
• Captain Armand T. Powlett, 25 January, 1892 – 1 January, 1894
• Captain John Fellowes, 1 January, 1894 – 1 January, 1895
• Captain John C. Burnell, 15 January, 1895 – 27 December, 1897
• Captain Andrew K. Bickford, 11 January, 1898 – 29 June, 1899
• Captain Reginald F. H. Henderson, 28 June, 1899 – 21 June, 1902
• Captain Walter H. B. Graham, 20 August, 1902 – 1 January, 1905
• Captain Frederick L. Campbell, 1 January, 1905 – 25 January, 1906  (died in fox hunting accident)
• Captain James Startin, 31 January, 1906 – 4 May, 1907
• Captain John Casement, 4 May, 1907 – 1 July, 1908
• Captain Robert H. Johnston Stewart, 13 June, 1908 – 15 December, 1909
• Captain Henry H. Torlesse, 15 December, 1909 – 17 November, 1911
• Captain Robert J. Prendergast, 1 December, 1911 – 21 September, 1915
• Rear-Admiral E. Hyde Smith, 21 September, 1915 – 15 April, 1919
• Captain Frederick S. Litchfield-Speer, 15 April, 1919 – 14 March, 1922
• Captain Herbert N. Garnett, 15 March, 1922 – 31 March, 1923
• Captain Frederick C. Fisher, 26 February, 1925 – 12 April, 1927
• Captain Dashwood F. Moir, 26 March, 1927 – c. April, 1929^[Inference]
• Captain Benjamin Wingate Barrow, 1 April, 1929 – 15 July, 1930
• Captain Hugh D. Hamilton, 15 July, 1930 – 15 July, 1932
• Captain Robert S. MacFarlan, 15 July, 1932 – 16 July, 1934
• Captain James V. V. Magrane, 16 July, 1934 – 4 September, 1935
• Captain Henry B. Maltby, 4 September, 1935 – 15 December, 1937  (vice Magrane)
• Commodore, Second Class Hugh R. Marrack, 15 December, 1937 – 9 July, 1943
• Captain George C. P. Menzies, July, 1947 – 5 November, 1947  (vice "Bosnett"[?])

King's Harbour Master

• Commander Thomas M. Brounger, 1 April, 1927 – 9 August, 1929
• Commander Christopher H. Philips, 9 August, 1929 – 14 April, 1930
• Commander Charles H. Champness, 16 May, 1934 – 2 March, 1935  (vice "Tait"[?])
• Commander Reginald Ramsbotham, 2 March, 1935 – 5 March, 1938
• Commander Roderick L. Moore, 5 March, 1938 – 23 November, 1939  (and as Deputy Superintendent)
• Commander Kenneth N. Humphreys, 23 November, 1939 – 20 January, 1940
• Captain Alban E. T. Tate, 20 January, 1940 – 5 September, 1943  (died in this post)

Assistant King's Harbour Master

• Commander Charles W. C. Strickland, 20 June, 1918 – 14 September, 1918  (died in this post)
• Commander Sydney K. Smyth, 29 April, 1921 – 24 April, 1923
• Commander William S. F. Macleod, 1924 – 1926
• Commander Arthur P. Saunders, 1 January, 1929  (vice Kirkpatrick)
• Commander Francis W. Crowther, 15 April, 1930 – September, 1932  (vice Saunders)
• Commander Frank G. L. Bullock, 31 January, 1935 – 15 February, 1937
• Lieutenant-Commander John Bostock, 15 February, 1937

See Also

• Plan of Dockyard at GWPDA.org
• Clowes, Sir Wm. Laird (1903). The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria. Vol. VII. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited.