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MMS. MOTOR MINE SWEEPERS.

A BAD DAY IN DECEMBER 1940. From a single Minelaying raid over the Thames Estuary, by German Aircraft, sixteen ships were sunk in sight of Sheerness.

MORE SHEPPEY HISTORY CAN BE FOUND HERE.
Other historical events associated with the Isle of Sheppey. Video's  from the Sheppey Heritage Trail. 
Sheppey Heritage Trail can be found on Queenborough and Sheerness Seafront.

D-DAY
Sheerness and Queenborough vessels take part in D-Day the Normandy landings

DUNKIRK.
Sheerness and Queenborough ships rescue troops from Dunkirk.

DRIFTER AND TRAWLER MINESWEEPERS

THE THAMES BOOM
To protect merchant and Royal Navy ships an anti-submarine net was placed across the Thames Estuary from Sheppey to Shoeburyness.

AMY JOHNSON, crashed her plane in to the Thames Estuary. Sheerness ships attempt a rescue.  Captain Fletcher of HMS Haslemere dies trying to save her from the sea.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE VESSELS WHICH SERVED AT WILDFIRE SHEERNESS AND WILDFIRE III QUEENBOROUGH, CAN BE FOUND ON THE SHIP DATABASE.

DIEPPE.
Sheerness ships take part in the Dieppe Raid

SHIPS LOST 
More than 300​ ships were lost in the Thames Estuary during World War Two. Half of these were ships of the royal navy.

SWEEPING THE SCHELDT.​Queenborough Minesweepers made possible that urgently needed supplies arrive on the front line prior to the Battle of the Bulge.

AWARDS GIVEN TO MINESWEEPERS for the Clearing the Scheldt and the Relief of Holland.

This was THEIR FINEST HOUR.

BYMS. BRITISH YARD MINE SWEEPERS.

FORTRESS SHEPPEY
For centuries the Isle of Sheppey has stood guard over the Medway and that great waterway, the Thames.

THE CHANNEL DASH, (Operation Cerberus)
In an epic David and Goliath battle, Destroyers from Sheerness attacked
a “Giant” German Battle Fleet.

The History
of
Wildfire III Queenborough and Wildfire Sheerness.
World War Two ​1939 to 1945.

THE RICHARD MONTGOMERY
also known as the Wreck or the Bomb Ship, sits in the Thames Estuary off Sheerness. 5,348 tons of bombs remain in her hold.

​THE RELIEF OF HOLLAND.
Wildfire III Minesweepers  open up Dutch Ports  allowing desperately needed food to arrive for the Dutch people who were starving to death.

THE ENEMY AT OUR DOOR.
Schnellboot attack shipping.
Planes drop mines and bomb ships.
Magnetic Mines sink hundreds of ships.

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BATTLE OF THE SCHELDT. ​Canadian troops fight a heroic battle, in appalling conditions, to clear the banks of the Scheldt.