World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 4 July 2013
Event ID 962194
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962194
War Office files for the defences of the River Clyde show that there were two Defence Electric Lights (DELs, large searchlights intended to illuminate targets for coast guns at night) at Dunoon, in place by January 1917 (The National Archives WO 78/5182). They were still in use in the Second World War, when there was also a 12-pdr gun at Dunoon (recorded in January 1940). The anti-submarine boom (see NS27NW 137 - a heavy net to prevent submarines entering the port) was stretched between Dunoon and Cloch Point.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 4 July 2013.
