Cliff End Battery

The position was supposed to hold a twenty gun barbette battery, however the land had too much nourishment and was unfit for the guns. As a result, the second option of 9″ cannons was already obsolete by the time the third option of 10 powerful 12.5inch guns was installed in 1877. A tunnel to far-off Fort Albert was begun in the years that followed, as did tests with searchlights and modifications to the guns.

Now mostly demolished, yet still discernible among the vacation cottages.

• Wiki – Cliffend Battery
• Palmerstonforts Society PDF

•  PDF’s are reproduced with kind permission of the Palmerstonforts Society