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Forth Defences, Inner, Dalmeny Battery, Electric Light Emplacement
Searchlight Battery (First World War)
Site Name Forth Defences, Inner, Dalmeny Battery, Electric Light Emplacement
Classification Searchlight Battery (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Port Neuk
Canmore ID 332113
Site Number NT17NW 177.02
NGR NT 13802 78382
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/332113
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Dalmeny
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County West Lothian
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.
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
Field Visit (7 September 2015)
The present office building has incorporated the original building with extensions to N, E and W sides. On entering through the original wide entrance into a corridor. This leads left and right to the former searchlights. The W searchlight has been converted to a toilet and storage room, while the E searchlight is storage and a kitchen. A plan, for Fire escapes routes, of the building clearly shows the thick walls of the original building.
Visited by RCAHMS (AKK) 7 September 2015.
