October 09, 2019

Fort Gilkicker - Gosport

Fort Gilkicker


Date: 6-10-2019
Location: Hampshire


Fort Gilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead. It was erected between 1863 and 1871 as a semi-circular arc with 22 casemates, to be armed with five twelve-inch guns, seventeen ten-inch guns and five nine-inch guns














































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