The Maunsell Forts are towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were operated...
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Guy Anson Maunsell (1 September 1884 – 20 June 1961) was the British civil engineer responsible for the design of the Maunsell Forts used by the United...
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parliament Robert Maunsell (Royal Navy officer) (1785/6–1845), Royal Navy officer, made post-captain in 1812 Maunsell Forts, sea forts of the United Kingdom...
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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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Shivering Sands Army Fort [U7] was a Maunsell army fort built near the Thames estuary for anti-aircraft defence. It is made up of several once-interconnected...
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The Palmerston Forts are a group of forts and associated structures around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The forts were built during the...
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Cliffe Fort Maunsell Sea Forts New Tavern Fort Shornmead Fort Slough Fort Tilbury Fort Fort Horsted Fort Amherst Fort Borstal Fort Bridgewood Fort Clarence...
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for £117,000 at the auction to an unnamed purchaser. Maunsell Forts Historic England. "Bull Sand Fort (915963)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved...
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Coastal defence and fortification (redirect from Sea fort)
defence forts were built to protect coastal forts. Through the middle 19th century, coastal forts could be bastion forts, star forts, polygonal forts, or...
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ISBN 0-901115-87-8 Turner, Frank R. (1995). The Maunsell Sea Forts. Vol. Part Two: Army Sea Forts. p. 18. ISBN 0-9524303-1-2. Wikimedia Commons has...
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station broadcasting from Shivering Sands Army Fort, one of the abandoned Second World War Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames Estuary. In 1964, following the...
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II, Roughs Tower was constructed by the United Kingdom as one of the Maunsell Forts, primarily to defend the vital shipping lanes in nearby estuaries against...
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Captain Robert Charles Maunsell (1785/6–1845) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Royal Navy, rising to the rank of post-captain. He was born at...
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was completed by October 2021. Filming locations also included the Maunsell Forts off the coast of Kent in south-east England. The film was released on...
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the pirate station Radio City staff who had occupied Knock John Fort, a Maunsell Sea Fort (a World War II British naval defence platform). Using the military...
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Admiralty M-N Scheme (category 20th-century forts in England)
involved in the construction of the towers was Guy Maunsell who later designed the Maunsell Sea Forts in World War II. This Day in History - 1 Feb 1917:...
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Wikiquote has quotations related to Michael Bates. List of micronations Maunsell Sea Fort MacEacheran, Mike. "Sealand: A peculiar 'nation' off England's coast"...
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Also discoverable is a remote standalone structure resembling the Maunsell Sea Forts, originally built by the United Kingdom to defend British estuaries...
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route, the force arrived off Indramayu on 30 June. On 31 July Captain Maunsell commanding the sloop the Procris, discovered a convoy of 40 or 50 proas...
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the President. LAST MOMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. Interesting Letter from Maunsell B. Field Esq. THE GREAT CALAMITY". The New York Times. April 17, 1865....
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from the original on 13 July 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2007. "The Maunsell Sea Forts". Whitstablescene.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 January...
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9780863817571, Conwy Mulberry Harbour Engineering Timelines - Guy Maunsell: World War II Sea Forts and Harbours "Combinedops Mulberry Harbours". Archived from...
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Smuggler Roberto Ricci as Professor Korenz Jessica Quintero as Kuwala David Maunsell as River Fisherman Sasha D'Arc as Kuwala's sister Roberto Alessandri as...
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of his eyes became swollen and the right side of his face discolored. Maunsell Bradhurst Field wrote in a letter to The New York Times that Lincoln then...
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face." Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Lincoln Administration, Maunsell Bradhurst Field wrote, "I had never seen upon the President's face an expression...
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acoustic mirrors at Denge and at the end he is standing on one of the Maunsell Forts in the Thames Estuary. For a few seconds, the band can be seen in the...
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Dunkin (1795–1845) Maunsell Van Rensselaer (1819–1900) ⚭ Sarah Ann Taylor (1825–1906) Caroline Matilda Van Rensselaer (1848–1941) Maunsell Van Rensselaer...
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Another source (Hashimoto) notes that Maunsell's successor to SIME started in 1944, suggesting that Maunsell had moved on by then. A record of a 1947...
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radio station on Red Sands Fort, (near Whitstable), a former Maunsell Fort on the Red Sands sandbar. Previously the fort had been used by Radio Invicta...
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