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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Info used for brochure


http://capitaldefence.orconhosting.net.nz/remgon/wgtnrem.htm
Seatoun 
   - Fort Dorset
   (see also the site profile of Fort Dorset.
       -Gap Battery
         - 4 emplacements for 4" MkVII guns for the
         Examination Battery.
         (2 of the 4" guns were shifted to Fort Ballance)
         - Magazine structure set into the hill.
         - Surface building (ready room?) with shell
          markings painted inside on the rear wall.
       - Beach Battery
         emplacements for 12 pdr guns mounted in
         1942. Guns removed after the 6 pdr twin guns at
         Fort Ballance were installed. Only the
         emplacements remain.
       -3 Observation Posts
         - Two by the summit of the Western mound of
         the Southern Ridge line.
         - One on the summit of the Eastern mound of the
         Southern Ridge line.
         All three Observation Posts are concrete
         shells only with no fittings remaining.
       -Structure by the Observation Post on the Eastern
          mound of the Southern Ridge line
          (Command Post ??). 


Palmer Heads 
   - Fortress Area
       -(as at April 1998) about 75% of the original
         road that ran from the foreshore below the
         fortress area to the upper camp/battery area.
       -Underground works for the plotting rooms
         and wireless rooms - rooms empty.
   - Moa Pt Radar/Observation Post
       -Only the concrete shells of the buildings remain



Shelly Bay 
   -Magazines
       -On the road between Shelly Bay and the Mt. Crawford
         Prison are built 10 reinforced concrete magazines set
         into the hillside.
   -Wharves
       -2 wharves extending south off a common wharf.
       -Workshops built on the landward end of the wharf
         area.
       -Slipway and repair facilities originally built to service
         the Fairmile patrol boats.
       -Base buildings
       -Some of the riginal buildings that were built for the Navy.  This
         consisted of accommodation blocks, mess facilities,
         recreation hall and canteen, small hospital, laundry,
         boiler houses, stores, shipwrights shop, administration
         block and officers quarters
         (These buildings have been added to,  modified and
         new ones built over the years with the base being first
         a Navy base then a Air Force base then
         accommodation for Defence Headquarters staff).
         (WW2 Barracks building - 1 wing demolished, other wings removed July/August 2010)

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