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Summary Record
Date 2 August 2013
Event ID 963021
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Summary Record
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/963021
The naval base control tower occupies a site on the southern end of the East Pier. Its date of construction is not known but is thought to 1951 or later. On a plan of the building held in a private collection the building is named as a Signal Station.
It may be that the building controlled movements of all shipping and seaplanes in the Cromarty Firth.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) and (AKK) 2 August 2013.
