ðĄïļð° Abandoned fort in the middle of the sea, "Maunsell Forts."
Did you know that Britain once built a "floating fortress" in the middle of the ocean to prevent landslides from German planes and warships in World War II?
ð Maunsell Forts was built 1941-1943, designed by British engineer Guy Maunsell, serving to protect the Thames and Mersey estuaries, the major shipping lanes of London and Liverpool.
ð The fort has two main forms.
âĒ Naval Forts Large Concrete Base with Dual Towers with Radar and Aircraft Gun
âĒ Army Forts with 7 towers connected by steel bridges, used for mounting guns, illumination cameras and control centers
âïļ In the Battle of the War, these forts helped fire, extract bombers, destroy V1 flying bombs and detect Germany's U-boat submarines.
ðŧ After the war ended, the fort was decommissioned during the 1950s, and later in the 1960s-1970s, some were used as groundbreaking "midsea bootleg radio" stations.
ð· Today, Maunsell Fort still towers in the middle of the sea in a desolate, island rusty but symbolically powerful state of war and has become the dream destination of adventurers and photographers, especially Red Sands Fort and Shivering Sands Fort.













































































































