Shornemead Fort is a now-disused artillery fort that was built in the 1860s to guard the entrance to the Thames from seaborne attack. Constructed during...

supported by Shornemead Fort and Cliffe Fort located to the south and east respectively on the Kent shore. Over time, as batteries and forts further downriver...

Garrison Point Fort Grain Battery Grain Fort Grain Tower Grange Redoubt Fort Hoo Fort Horsted Fort Luton New Tavern Fort Shornemead Fort Slough Fort Twydall...

forts guarding the Thames downstream from Gravesend, at New Tavern Fort in the town, Shornemead Fort on the Thames's south bank, and Coalhouse Fort on...

established along the Thames. Three forts would be constructed or rebuilt - Shornemead Fort and Cliffe Fort in Kent and Coalhouse Fort in Essex - to provide an outer...

new fortification, similarly replacing the existing Shornemead Fort and building a wholly new fort at Cliffe, which would replace an 18th-century battery...

1940, at Shornemead Fort; transferred to 518th (T&M) Coast Rgt by 1 April 1940 284 Bty – formed from part of A Bty 1 April 1941, at Grain Fort 285 Bty...

'Examination Bty' by March 1941, became 109 Bty 1 April, transferred to Shornemead Fort in 517th (Thames & Medway) Coast Rgt 23 October 1941 404 Bty – at Lytham...

upriver forts (Cliffe, Coalhouse and Shornemead) and those at the mouth of the Medway (Grain and Garrison Point). As an 1869 report noted, the fort was constructed...

Minerva was on a voyage from the River Thames to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated in mid-November and beached near the Shornemead Fort....

Unnamed  France The pilot boat sank off the La Coubre Lighthouse, Gironde. Unnamed Flag unknown The brig was driven ashore at the Shornemead Fort, Kent....