HM Fort Roughs is one of several World War II installations that were designed by Guy Maunsell and known collectively as His Majesty's Forts or as Maunsell...
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is a micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), an offshore platform in the North Sea. It is situated on Rough Sands, a sandbar located...
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in this important shipping channel. There were four naval forts: Rough Sands (HM Fort Roughs) (U1) 51°53′43″N 1°28′50″E / 51.895194°N 1.480569°E / 51...
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1966, at the age of 14, Michael joined his father Roy in occupying HM Fort Roughs, where they established a pirate radio station. Michael left his boarding...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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1967 Principality of Sealand Paddy Roy Bates took over HM Fort Roughs, a defunct Maunsell Fort built off the coast of Suffolk during World War II, and...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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completely abandoned in 1973. In 1967, Paddy Roy Bates squatted on HM Fort Roughs, an offshore platform in the North Sea used during World War II approximately...
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v t e The Principality of Sealand Micronation Background HM Fort Roughs Pirate radio Wonderful Radio London People Topics Related The Battle of Sealand...
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Pembroke Dockyard (redirect from HM Dockyard, Pembroke)
Tower which are also listed buildings, and the Bomb stores at West end of Fort Road. The list below details those structures graded I or II*, and the bomb...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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command of Captain Gerald Warner. A signalling school had been established at HM Barracks, Portsmouth in 1904 and was transferred to Petersfield during the...
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Harbour occurs in 1704, when Fort Berkeley was listed as one of the island's forts established around the coast of Antigua. Fort Berkeley was built on a peninsula...
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v t e The Principality of Sealand Micronation Background HM Fort Roughs Pirate radio Wonderful Radio London People Topics Related The Battle of Sealand...
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Gibdock (redirect from HM Dockyard, Gibraltar)
overseas territory of Gibraltar. It formerly operated as a Royal Navy Dockyard. HM Dockyard, Gibraltar was first developed in the 18th century. After the Capture...
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v t e The Principality of Sealand Micronation Background HM Fort Roughs Pirate radio Wonderful Radio London People Topics Related The Battle of Sealand...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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Principality of Sealand has existed as an unrecognised micronation on HM Fort Roughs, a sea fort off the coast of Suffolk. It was occupied by Paddy Roy Bates,...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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south of Plymouth UK, commissioned between 1956 and 2001. Formerly named HM Gunnery School, Devonport, then Cambridge Gunnery School at Wembury. The site...
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Rosse Spit UK Humber 53°30’N 00°15’E SW-NE 4.5 2 Rough Shoals UK SNS 51°54’N 01°30’E S-N 10 8 HM Fort Roughs Royal Sovereign Shoals UK English Channel 50°45’N...
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Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. One of which on HM Fort Roughs is now occupied by the controversial Principality of Sealand. Post Second...
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soldier Roy Bates, a retired British Army major, staked a claim on HM Fort Roughs, an abandoned anti-aircraft platform in the North Sea, that had not...
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Authority. 2 September – Paddy Roy Bates proclaims HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell naval fort off the Suffolk coast, as an independent sovereign...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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Caroline in the 1960s to take physical control of a sea fort which had been the World War II HM Fort Roughs. As a squatter on this disused installation Bates...
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HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar...
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