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Chanonry Point
Searchlight Battery (First World War)
Site Name Chanonry Point
Classification Searchlight Battery (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Inverness Naval Base Defences
Canmore ID 346053
Site Number NH75NW 348
NGR NH 74900 55770
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/346053
- Council Highland
- Parish Rosemarkie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Note (12 January 2015)
Located by the beach to the West of the Lighthouse was a searchlight battery supporting a coast battery (see NH75NW 349).
A picture of the searchlight emplacement is held in the Rowley H F S (Captain) Collection in the Imperial War Museum (Q 23081), captioned as 'Chanory Point Searchlight station, Inverness Naval Base'.
The battery comprised two searchlights on a wooden platform with a wooden and corregated tin building to the rear, which may have held a generator to power the lights. From the photograph the battery appears to be manned by navy ratings and possibly Royal Marines.
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 12 January 2015.
