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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)
-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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