Lower Battery / Batterie inférieure

Lower Battery was built between 1896 and 1898 at the same time as Upper Battery. Two 6-inch breech-loading coast defence guns were mounted here, and an adjacent barracks accommodated the gun crews of both Upper and Lower Batteries. Operating it during an alert required discipline, precise timing, and constant attention to safety, following a sequence in which an enemy vessel was sighted, the battery took post, gun fire was opened, and the vessel was sunk, rendered harmless, or retired out of range before the battery stood down. The guns were dismounted about 1942. Most of the battery is original, and the two emplacements retain the roller races on which the 6-inch guns rotated. The site also presents the story of the defences and the troops during the First World War.

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