EAW002986 ENGLAND (1946). The port and harbour, Portland, from the north, 1946
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| Title | [EAW002986] The port and harbour, Portland, from the north, 1946 |
| Reference | EAW002986 |
| Date | 3-October-1946 |
| Link | |
| Place name | PORTLAND |
| Parish | PORTLAND |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 369580, 75235 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -2.4296545359769, 50.575473534751 |
| National Grid Reference | SY696752 |
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 Location of a 2ndWW Coast Artillery Battery, e07174. |
 redmist |
Sunday 18th of September 2022 07:03:13 PM |
| Military hospital |
ajsmith99 |
Friday 3rd of May 2019 02:57:17 PM |
| Oil fuel tanks |
ajsmith99 |
Saturday 19th of January 2019 09:28:45 PM |
| Oil fuel tanks |
ajsmith99 |
Thursday 22nd of March 2018 08:33:50 AM |
| Coaling shed |
ajsmith99 |
Saturday 23rd of September 2017 04:46:25 PM |
| Portland Castle |
ajsmith99 |
Saturday 23rd of September 2017 04:42:18 PM |
| Stone obelisk |
ajsmith99 |
Saturday 23rd of September 2017 04:41:44 PM |
| Stone obelisk |
ajsmith99 |
Saturday 23rd of September 2017 04:41:20 PM |
| East Weare Camp |
ajsmith99 |
Saturday 23rd of September 2017 04:39:52 PM |
| Royal Naval Cemetery |
ajsmith99 |
Friday 8th of September 2017 06:56:34 PM |
| Boom defence vessel - also used for maintenace of bouys |
Tim Hale |
Monday 8th of June 2015 02:13:29 PM |
| The Verne previously a fort- now HMP Verne |
Tim Hale |
Monday 8th of June 2015 02:11:23 PM |
| Seaplane hanger |
Tim Hale |
Monday 8th of June 2015 02:09:27 PM |
| Depot ship HMS Maidstone
On 16 June 1955 the submarine HMS Sidon sank in Portland harbour alongside Maidstone 20 minutes after an explosion in the forward torpedo compartment. A rescue party from Maidstone saved a number of the Sidon's crew, but 13 died. A week later, the submarine was raised and the accident was found to be caused by the high-test peroxide fuel in a torpedo. Surgeon Lieutenant Charles Rhodes was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal for his part in the rescue.
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Tim Hale |
Monday 8th of June 2015 02:08:28 PM |
See also EAW038192 for HMS Maidstone moored in the Medway, off Port Victoria, Isle of Grain on the 2nd August 1951. HMS Maidstone was moored at Belfast from October 1969 and used as a floating barracks for 2,000 soldiers. It was also used as prison accommodation for IRA detainees in 1971. |
Kentishman |
Monday 25th of March 2019 10:25:43 PM |
| Small floating dock |
Coventry kid |
Thursday 5th of June 2014 09:46:25 PM |
| Another KGV class battleship. |
Coventry kid |
Thursday 5th of June 2014 09:45:22 PM |
| A King George V battleship. Note two flat-topped funnels and 5.25 gun turrets along the side, prominent armoured belt along the waterline. |
Coventry kid |
Thursday 5th of June 2014 09:44:29 PM |
| Mulberry Harbour Phoenix breakwater Caissons |
Al |
Monday 6th of January 2014 01:10:11 AM |
| HMS RODNEY (or is it NELSON?!) |
GRP47 |
Wednesday 6th of November 2013 02:52:05 PM |
It's HMS Nelson, after WWII, used as a training ship in 1946-8, scrapped in 1949. |
Martin D |
Saturday 29th of March 2014 09:40:28 PM |
