"Shivering Sands" Maunsell Fort, Herne Bay, On The 'X-Pilot' 2015 - A 10 Minute Tour скачать в хорошем качестве

"Shivering Sands" Maunsell Fort, Herne Bay, On The 'X-Pilot' 2015 - A 10 Minute Tour

"Shivering Sands" Maunsell Fort, Herne Bay, Seen from The 'X-Pilot' A 10 Minute Tour filmed on 12 July 2015 The towers were built on land and floated out in 1943. Later in the war the equipment was replaced and removed soon after. The forts were abandoned in 1958. In the 1960s some weather equipment was installed in the searchlight tower. On 7 June 1963 a boat called the Ribersborg collided with one of the towers, which fell into the sea without harming anyone or sinking the boat. In 1964 Screaming Lord Sutch set up Radio Sutch (a pirate radio station) on one of the old towers. However, he soon became bored and handed the project to his manager Reginald Calvert, who then expanded into all five towers that were still connected and called it Radio City. Radio City - compared with Radio Caroline and Radio London - was never a great success, and with the imminent arrival of the Marine Offences Act 1967, the fort was abandoned. In 1990 the top of the searchlight tower was cut away so that helicopters could be used to maintain the weather equipment inside. In 1992 it was decided that the tower was no longer necessary for the continued operation of the instruments contained within, and a large buoy was placed next to the tower for the same purpose. Based on information from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiveri...