4368 x 2912 px | 37 x 24,7 cm | 14,6 x 9,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
9 août 2010
Lieu:
Rubha nan Sasan, Loch Ewe, Scotland, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
Coast artillery battery including 2 x 6in gun platforms, battery observation post, 2 x coast artillery searchlights, 2 x engine rooms, magazines and hut bases. The extensive remains of a Second World War emergency coast battery, built in 1941. Surviving structural elements include two gun houses in each of which a 6' Mark 7 (naval) gun would have been mounted, two searchlight emplacements, a battery observation post, engine houses or generating rooms, magazines and two emplacements for (possibly 20mm Oerlikon) anti-aircraft guns. The remains of other unidentified buildings can also be seen, while evidence of accommodation blocks survives in the form of concrete floors to the S and W, mainly outside the area proposed for scheduling. The battery was hastily erected at a time when there was a perceived threat of German attack on the British coast and, for this reason, is known as an emergency battery. The battery, as well as protecting the Loch Ewe anchorage, provided covering fire for an examination vessel which checked the credentials of all ships entering the anchorage. From January to September 1942 the site was manned by 308 Independent Coast Battery (Royal Artillery) and from September 1942 until April 1944 by 154 Independent Battery, after which date it was placed on a care and maintenance basis. There is no record of the battery ever firing in anger. Source: Historic Scotland
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