No. 2 Battery, Gosport - Military Sea Defences 1879
No.2 Battery, Gosport - Military Sea Defences 1879
The dramatic, stormy light over the old fort reminded me of the foreboding reason the menacing line of old sea defences was originally built.
A long line of military sea defences was built in 1879 to defend the Solent shores against attack.
No.2 Battery consisted of a sea facing high rampart to mount guns that could dominate the beach and a casemated set of three gun chambers to fire down the moat towards the east. A large range of earth covered casemated barracks held guns that fired westwards over Browndown. No.2 Battery was completely encircled by the Stokes Bay moat.
The strategy being that the fixed guns and mobile soldiers would fire down, along and diagonally across the moat and shore should any beach invasion be encountered.
No.2 Battery is now the home of a superb Diving Museum.
No. 2 Battery, Gosport - Military Sea Defences 1879
No.2 Battery, Gosport - Military Sea Defences 1879
The dramatic, stormy light over the old fort reminded me of the foreboding reason the menacing line of old sea defences was originally built.
A long line of military sea defences was built in 1879 to defend the Solent shores against attack.
No.2 Battery consisted of a sea facing high rampart to mount guns that could dominate the beach and a casemated set of three gun chambers to fire down the moat towards the east. A large range of earth covered casemated barracks held guns that fired westwards over Browndown. No.2 Battery was completely encircled by the Stokes Bay moat.
The strategy being that the fixed guns and mobile soldiers would fire down, along and diagonally across the moat and shore should any beach invasion be encountered.
No.2 Battery is now the home of a superb Diving Museum.