Defence of Britain Archive

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The anti-invasion defences on this small beach, in addition to the 2 pillboxes at either end of the beach, consisted of metal scaffolding poles and mines. In addition to mines in the beach some of the mines were attached to the scaffold poles a few feet above the beach surface. The scaffold poles were set at a 45 degree angle and were designed to damage or sink landing craft at high states of the tide. Any invading forces landing on this beach could cut across the Rame peninsula and attack Plymouth Dockyard from the landward side.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/09/26)


      

        Type of site
        ANTI BOAT LANDING OBSTACLE
      

      

        Location
        Finnygook beach, Portwrinkle.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Looe, Cornwall, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SX 3591 5377
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1982)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Removed

      

      

        Materials
        
            Land mines, 
            Steel
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Harvey, Alwyn (Fortress Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Cornwall coast defences - Defences of the Cornwall coastal crust. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - photograph attached to sheet.

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (1) - site view.  
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Pillbox at E end of Finnygook beach.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001477

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, Between 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1998/09/26 

            Clearance, Before 1946 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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