Essex War Defences On The Thames Estuary.

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The Quick-Firing ‘Wing Battery’ just south-west of Coalhouse Fort inland of Coalhouse Point was constructed in 1893 to counter enemy torpedo boat technology which presented itself as a new potential threat to shipping in the Thames. It would have housed four 6-pounder quick firing guns each capable of unloading 25 rounds per minute. These were far better suited to combating such fast-moving targets than the large slow breech-loading guns at Coalhouse Fort. The battery went on to be later adapted with two searchlights added when the guns became obsolete around the turn of the 20th Century and with advancing military technology at better suited nearby military sites the one here was likely abandoned completely by the end of the first World War.

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