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Old 11-15-10, 11:47 AM   #1
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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
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Old 11-15-10, 04:51 PM   #2
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One Maunsell Sea Fort is now a nation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
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Wonder how can you declare a state without any "land" ...

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Old 11-15-10, 06:37 PM   #3
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Wonder how can you declare a state without any "land" ...

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Ask the Holy See. They had that problem until 1929
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