World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 16 July 2013
Event ID 962488
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962488
The Submarine Mining Depot was built in 1886-7 and was located between Broughty Ferry Castle (NO43SE 10.00) and the later Castle Green Battery (NO43SE 69). One of the buildings of the station survives.
The station was established to prepare a defensive minefield across the Tay immediately west of the Castle. The station’s layout was shown on record plans of the Castle Green Battery (probably dating from between 1906 and 1909) and had, by the time of plan of the Broughty Castle/Castle Green dated 1916 (The National Archives WO 78/5195), been occupied by buildings associated with the gunnery school, which had been moved to Broughty Ferry in 1909.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 16 July 2013.
