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The 2015 video game Stranded Deep includes abandoned Sea Forts that have the appearance of Maunsell Army Forts. These are difficult-to-find Easter Eggs built into the game for players to explore. The setting of the 2023 science fiction film Last Sentinel is based on a structure modelled after a single tower of the Maunsell army forts. [33] [34]
As a contemporary historical society notes, [2] Fort Roughs or the "Rough Towers" was "the first of originally four naval forts designed by G. Maunsell to protect the Thames Estuary." The artificial sea fort was constructed in dry dock at Red Lion Wharf, Gravesend , [ 2 ] in the year preceding and into 1942.
Shivering Sands Army Fort [U7] was a Maunsell army fort built near the Thames estuary for anti-aircraft defence.It is made up of several once-interconnected towers north of Herne Bay and is 14.8 km (9.2 miles) from the nearest land.
The Principality of Sealand (/ ˈ s iː ˌ l æ n d /) is a micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), [2] an offshore platform in the North Sea.It is situated on Rough Sands, a sandbar located approximately 11 kilometres (6 nmi) from the coast of Suffolk and 13 kilometres (7 nmi) from the coast of Essex.
The Maunsell sea forts, 9 miles (14 km) off the coast of Whitstable. Off the coast of Whitstable is Kentish Flats offshore windfarm, consisting of 30 wind turbines, each 140 metres (459 ft) high, providing enough electricity to power 70,000 households. [76]
Although output never exceeded 2 kW, the efficiency of the antenna combined with its location over water (a reflector of radio waves) gave it the coverage of a more powerful land-based station, and Radio City claimed a power of 10 kW for the purpose of attracting advertisers. One of the early DJ's on Radio City was Tom Edwards.
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The site also offers a view in the distance of the "red sands" Maunsell Forts of the Thames Estuary, [8] the forty five wind turbines of Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm, [9] [10] the Isle of Sheppey and at the West-end "The Street" a "Spit of land" that appears at low-tide and allows walking 750 meters [11] into the sea [12]