Sheerness is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, England. It is situated by the mouth of the River Medway.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Statement of a Returned Convict. (Volume 3): "I was ten weeks in the Bellerophon hulk at Sheerness, and was then taken to Hobart Town, Van Dieman’s Land, in the Sir Godfrey Webster."