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- Lumps_Fort abstract "Lumps Fort is a disused fortification built on Portsea Island as part of the defences for the naval base at Portsmouth.Lumps Fort dates from the 18th century. The earliest reference is in the records of the Board of Ordnance in 1805 which mention "Lumps Fort-three 32-pounder guns".By 1822 the fort was the site of a semaphore station on the semaphore line from London to Portsmouth. It was constructed here to avoid the smog of the town of Portsmouth which would impede direct optical communications from Portsdown Hill. The fort was out of use as a defensive fort by the 1820s and in 1827 part of the fort fell into the sea. The semaphore station was closed in 1847 when the electrical telegraph took over. The fort was reconstructed between 1859 and 1869 as one of the Palmerston forts in the line of Portsmouth Harbour defences. It became a coastal battery with two 6-inch rifled breech-loader Mk. IV guns. These guns were taken away in 1906, but the fort was rearmed in 1914. It was then a beach defence battery and was armed with a 6-pounder Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun. At the end of the World War I, it was demolished, leaving only an outline.The fort was brought by the city in 1932. Plans to develop the site were interrupted by World War II. In 1942, an elite special forces unit, the Royal Marine Boom Defence Patrol Detachment, was based in two Nissen huts at the fort and trained in the Solent opposite; they went on to conduct Operation Frankton, the famous "Cockleshell Raid" on shipping in Bordeaux harbour. After the war, it was planted as a rose garden, and part of the site became the Southsea Model VillageAdjacent to the site is the Canoe Lake, constructed from a large area of marshland, which was opened on 17 June 1886 and used as a boating lake. During World War II, the lake was used for experiments into countermeasures against magnetic mines".
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- Lumps_Fort wikiPageExternalLink lumps.pdf.
- Lumps_Fort wikiPageID "27910194".
- Lumps_Fort wikiPageRevisionID "566613463".
- Lumps_Fort downwards HMNB_Portsmouth.
- Lumps_Fort geochain "Admiralty Semaphore line 1822".
- Lumps_Fort hasPhotoCollection Lumps_Fort.
- Lumps_Fort type "station".
- Lumps_Fort upwards Camp_Down,_Portsdown_Hill.
- Lumps_Fort subject Category:Forts_in_Portsmouth.
- Lumps_Fort subject Category:Palmerston_Forts.
- Lumps_Fort point "50.7811 -1.068".
- Lumps_Fort type Artifact100021939.
- Lumps_Fort type Facility103315023.
- Lumps_Fort type FortsInPortsmouth.
- Lumps_Fort type Garrison103420559.
- Lumps_Fort type MilitaryInstallation103763133.
- Lumps_Fort type MilitaryPost103763403.
- Lumps_Fort type Object100002684.
- Lumps_Fort type PalmerstonForts.
- Lumps_Fort type PhysicalEntity100001930.
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- Lumps_Fort type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Lumps_Fort type SpatialThing.
- Lumps_Fort comment "Lumps Fort is a disused fortification built on Portsea Island as part of the defences for the naval base at Portsmouth.Lumps Fort dates from the 18th century. The earliest reference is in the records of the Board of Ordnance in 1805 which mention "Lumps Fort-three 32-pounder guns".By 1822 the fort was the site of a semaphore station on the semaphore line from London to Portsmouth.".
- Lumps_Fort label "Lumps Fort".
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- Lumps_Fort sameAs Q15243099.
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- Lumps_Fort sameAs Lumps_Fort.
- Lumps_Fort lat "50.7811".
- Lumps_Fort long "-1.068".
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- Lumps_Fort depiction Entrance_to_Lumps_Fort,_Canoe_Lake_grounds,_Southsea_-_geograph.org.uk_-_71147.jpg.
- Lumps_Fort isPrimaryTopicOf Lumps_Fort.