7:Maunsell Towers Information

Background

Frank Turner Documentary on YouTube.

Frank Turner talk to Docklands History 2003.

John Posford film 12 mins BFI the first 7 minutes are about the towers.

Frank Turner Books

• Turner, Frank R. The Maunsell Sea Forts. Pt. 1: The World War Two Naval Sea Forts of the Thames Estuary. Gravesend: F.R. Turner, 1994.
• Turner, Frank R. The Maunsell Sea Forts. Pt. 2: The World War Two Army Sea Forts of the Thames & Mersey Estuaries. Gravesend: F.R. Turner, 1995.
• Watson, Nigel, and Frank Turner. Maunsell: The Firm and Its Founder. Hong Kong: AECOM Technology Corporation, 2005.

The Construction of Britain’s Sea forts – John Albert Posford

THE MAUNSELL SEAFORTS APPRECIATION GROUP on Facebook (may need login)

Smith, Victor T. C. Defending London’s River: [The Story of the Thames Forts, 1540-1945. Kent: North Kent Books, 1985.

28 Days Later Explorers group Visit to inside of Knock John Fort

Tongue Tower – Good photos and history Offshoreradiomuseum.co.uk and Bob le Roi Scrapbook

Maunsell Seaforts Appreciation Group on Facebook has a large collection of photos and expertise for questions.

RADAR

Wikipedia on RADAR Range up to 30 miles

Antiaircraft Journal, Volume 88

TECHNICAL STAFF MONOGRAPHS 1939-1945 RADAR 1954

Type 273 RADAR – not much info but has a photo.

Radar at Sea The Royal Navy in World War 2

PHD Thesis on Intelligence – see Battle of Beams.

Also see Project Seafort and Project Redsand and Weapons and Warfare for history.

See ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/ for RADAR background. – Type 273 Radar and Lantern

Other

See March 2021 for Trinity House NAB-tower-from-Flash-Magazine-TH

Posford Concrete Ships on Facebook

Film on Magnetic Mines

Army fort hammocks photo on Facebook

Sea Defence boom and Wikipedia also see later Cold War Boom

1962 Tongue Sands photo Facebook

Sunk Head just before blowing up

The Gunroom – good info from here

Monthly Weather Report of the meteorological Office for the year 1942 M. O. 461

Write up on Towers.

Article on Life on the Forts

Photos construction

File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A26873.jpg – Wikimedia Commons

File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A26872.jpg – Wikimedia Commons

File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A26879.jpg – Wikimedia Commons

File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A26874.jpg – Wikimedia Commons

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