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Fort St Catherine(Wales)
St Catherine's Fort is a 19th century Palmerston Fort, located on St Catherine's Island, at Tenby, West Wales. The fort was recommended by the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom which had been established in 1859 by Lord Palmerston in response to a perceived threat of invasion by Emperor Napoleon III of France. When considering the defence of the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock and the anchorage at Milford Haven, the Commissioners believed that there was a danger that an enemy force might stage an amphibious landing on a beach on the southern Pembrokeshire coast and attack the naval facilities overland. It was envisaged by the Commissioners that there should be a chain of coastal artillery forts extending along the coast from Tenby to Freshwater West covering all the potential landing sites, but in the event, only the fort at Tenby was constructed
Information from Tenbyislands Trust.
Texture's by William Walton&Topaz
Fort St Catherine(Wales)
St Catherine's Fort is a 19th century Palmerston Fort, located on St Catherine's Island, at Tenby, West Wales. The fort was recommended by the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom which had been established in 1859 by Lord Palmerston in response to a perceived threat of invasion by Emperor Napoleon III of France. When considering the defence of the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock and the anchorage at Milford Haven, the Commissioners believed that there was a danger that an enemy force might stage an amphibious landing on a beach on the southern Pembrokeshire coast and attack the naval facilities overland. It was envisaged by the Commissioners that there should be a chain of coastal artillery forts extending along the coast from Tenby to Freshwater West covering all the potential landing sites, but in the event, only the fort at Tenby was constructed
Information from Tenbyislands Trust.
Texture's by William Walton&Topaz