Tynemouth Castle Battery is located within the confines of Tynemouth Castle and Priory. The infrastructure of the battery has been preserved and partially restored.
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| Tynemouth Castle Battery |
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The battery was commissioned in August 1904, part of the Tyne Defences, which consisted of Tynemouth Castle Battery, Spanish Battery (Tynemouth) and Frenchmans Point Battery (South Shields)
The battery operated through the First and Second World Wars, but never engaged the enemy, its guns achieving the aim of deterring enemy ships attacking the Tyne. The advent of the Cold War saw the threat of jet aircraft and missiles reducing the requirement for coastal artillery. In 1956 coastal artillery units in the UK were disbanded and coastal batteries decommissioned.
The restored element of the battery consists of a 6inch gun with it's magazine.
The gun emplacement is built atop of the magazine and it would have been fed with shells and cartridges via hoists.
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| 6 inch gun emplacement |
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| Shell Storage |
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| Cartridge Storage |
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| Shell Hoist |
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| Shell Hoist Ammunition awaiting hoisting to gun emplacement |
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| Shell Hoist |
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| Cartridges ready to be passed through to the cartridge hoist |
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| Cartridge hoist |
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| 6 inch gun |
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| 6 inch gun breach |