Fort Gilkicker
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fort-gilkicker-165-10553278
title:
Fort Gilkicker
text:
Fort Gilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire England 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. The actual installed armament rather differed from this. In 1902 the RML guns were replaced by two 9.2-inch and two six-inch BL guns, and before the First World War the walls we
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gilkicker
date created:
2004-10-22T20:50:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T11:04:54Z
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