Red Sands Rendezvous
Issue 1 : Updated : 8th November 2007
The Thames barge "Greta" at Red Sands in August 2001
Kept at Standard Quay Faversham SB Greta spends the summer in Whitstable Harbour
For more on Faversham see the town website
Grounded in 1943 at 5 nautical miles from the nearest land, Wardens Point on the Isle-of-Sheppey, & 7 miles from Whitstable a later supply port. The Forts were built to defend the Thames approaches & London. Abandoned by the MoD in 1956 Red Sands Army Forts became home to Radio Invicta, K.I.N.G & Radio 390 between 1964 & 1967
See Red Romance for the detail
Red Sands fort cluster MoD code name U6 ("Uncle 6") looking North: Foreground & flanked right 3.7 Gun Towers, Centre Control Tower, 3.7 Gun Tower & at the rear Searchlight Tower containing original Gardner generators used by the forts "Pirate" stations
Audio |
Montage
from Red Sands Army Fort echoes from 1943, 1960's and the Seagull
that have made it their home
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3.7 Gun Towers
Bofors Gun Tower
Control Tower
Fort cluster close up
Searchlight Tower
Still evidence of the 1967 aborted Red Sands Development Company
The Towers fall silent again
Greta sets sail back to Whitstable Harbour