Shoeburyness.

Shoeburyness. on the coast of Essex, and at the mouth of the Thames, faces the Nore, 3 miles E. of Southend and 45 of London. Its dreary marshland, purchased by government in 1842–53, has since been the seat of a school of gunnery, with artillery barracks, batteries, targets, and other appliances for experimenting on cannon. See GUNNERY.