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Originally Posted by krashkart
I have to feel for the guys stationed on the earlier forts. The lower ranks had to sleep in the bowels of the supports.
I'm taking a guess that this was one of those earlier Maunsell forts? |
The platforms with just two pillars are Navy forts, and the ones in the OP are the Army forts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Sea_Forts
One Maunsell Sea Fort is now a nation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
Whenever I think of Maunsell though, I always think of Richard Maunsell who designed completely different things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Maunsell