This was not the first defensive structure hereabouts. See Shoeburyness. For a fuller account of the barrier see this site.
The defensive boom required many resources for its operation including fourteen tugs, five launches and team of four hundred people. In the early part of the war enemy aircraft managed to lay mines inside the barrier.
Image Credits and Sources
- WW2 Barrier 1907 updated 1945 Kreigsmarine – Dungeness bis Orfordness und Strasse von Dover Published: 1945 obviously copied from the Admiralty Chart of the time. Thanks to: National Library of Scotland.: National Library of Scotland
- Picture5-1: Imperial War Museum via wikipedia
Image Credits and Sources
- WW2 Barrier 1907 updated 1945 Kreigsmarine – Dungeness bis Orfordness und Strasse von Dover Published: 1945 obviously copied from the Admiralty Chart of the time. Thanks to: National Library of Scotland.: National Library of Scotland
- Picture5-1: Imperial War Museum via wikipedia