The Sheerness Dockyard, operated by the Royal Navy, was involved in the Raid on the Medway which was a successful attack in June 1667 by the Dutch Navy on English warships.
Royal Navy The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. Raid on the Medway, 1667 
