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World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 19 August 2013
Event ID 963373
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/963373
A series of drawings on War department file (The National Archives WO 78/5166) records, in 1903, Defence Electric Light equipment installed at Dalmeny Battery. DELs were powerful searchlights that illuminated targets for the guns at night. The drawings show the engine room and oil store for the lights, on the main battery site, and the location of the two lights, beside the shore. The lights were of the kind that projected a fixed beam into an area on which the battery's guns were already targetted.
The DEL emplacement took the form of two light-housings linked by a low flat-roofed building. The structure was recorded in detail.
The building survives, having been converted into a house.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 19 August 2013.
