Victorian Forts and Artillery series published by David Moore
These publications, formerly published by David Moore on behalf The Palmerston Forts Society
are now published by David Moore. They are in the process of being updated and will be available soon.
VF1 : Arming the Forts by David Moore : Published 2011 A description of the ordnance of the Victorian land Forts. This includes the 7-inch Rifled Breech Loading gun, the 64pr, Rifled Muzzle loading gun, the 13-inch mortar, the 40 and 20 pr. Rifled Breech loader, the Moncrieff mounting and the 6.6-inch howitzer. A4 format, 44 pages, illustrated. EAN 978-0-9548453-4-6 Price £5.50 Sterling |
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VF2 : Mallet's Mortar by David Moore & Geoffrey Salter : Published 2011 A history and description of the two largest mortars ever built. Designed to bombard Sebastopol, they each weighed 30 tons and had a calibre of 36 inches, firing shells weighing over a ton. One mortar now stands outside the headquarters of the Society, the Museum of Artillery of the Royal Armouries, at Fort Nelson. A4 format - with colour and black/white photographs and diagrams- 12 pages. EAN 978-0-9548453-5-3 Price £2.00 Sterling |
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VF3 :The Brennan Torpedo by Alec Beanse : Published March 2012 The Brennan Torpedo was an ingenious
wire-guided and powered torpedo, invented and developed by Louis
Brennan in the late 1880s and 1890s. It was adopted for use in the
defences of the UK and at two stations abroad, Hong Kong and Malta, for
a short period to 1906. During its brief operational life it was
operated by the Royal Engineers. Some of the great Victorian coast
defence forts were modified to receive Brennan Torpedo stations whilst
other stations were built from new. The existence of this amazing piece
of defence engineering has, up to now, been little known. The method of
its operation, the nature of of the mechanism by which it worked and
the story of this torpedo's development has been painstakingly
researched over many years by the author, who now explains how it
worked and how it was incorporated into the Victorian defences. EAN 978-0-9548453-6-0 Price £6.00 Sterling
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VF4: The London Mobilisation Centres by Alec Beanse and Roger Gill : Published 2011 A4 format, card covers, 76 pages; A description of the purpose behind, the building and the history of the late Victorian defence scheme to protect London with detailed isometric drawings and plans. EAN 978-0-9548453-7-7 Price £7.50 Sterling |
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A Handbook of Military Terms by David Moore : Published 2011 An explanation and A to Z of terms associated withVictorian forts with tables of information on ordnance, carriages, platforms and other related matters. A4 format 60 pages. EAN 978-0-9548453-8-4 Price £6.00 Sterling
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The Solent Papers Series published by David Moore
No.1 Spitbank and the Spithead Forts by Garry Mitchell 2003 A4 format, card covers, 40 pages; with drawings, monocrome and colour photographs and plans explaining the construction, purpose and history of the four forts in the sea at Spithead, Spitbank, Horse Sand, No Mans Land and St. Helens forts. 2003 Edition EAN 978-0-9570302-0-6 2011 edition : Price £5.50 Sterling |
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No.2 The Needles Defences by Anthony Cantwell A4 format, card covers, 36 pages; with drawings, colour photographs and plans explaining the construction, purpose and history of the forts on the west side of the Isle of Wight, including The Needles batteries, Hurst Castle, Warden Point, Hatherwood, Freshwater Redoubt, Forts Albert and Victoria, Golden Hill, Cliff End and the later battery at Bouldnor. ISBN 0 9513234 9 0 EAN 978-0-9513234-9-6 2011 edition : Price £5.50 Sterling |
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No.3 Fort Nelson and the Portsdown Forts by Garry Mitchell A4 format, card covers, 36 pages; with drawings, plans and colour photographs explaining the construction, purpose and history of the forts on Portsdown Hill. Including Forts Wallington, Nelson, Southwick, Widley, and Purbrook with its outworks at Farlington and Crookhorn. ISBN 0 9513234 5 8 EAN 978-0-9513234-5-8 2010 edition : Price £4.00 Sterling |
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No.4 Hilsea Lines and Portsbridge by Garry Mitchell A4 format, card covers, 34 pages; with drawings, colour and monocroem photographs and plans explaining the construction, purpose and history of the Hilsea Lines at Portsbridge Portsmouth. ISBN 0 9513234 7 4 EAN 978-0-9513234-7-2 2011 edition : Price £5.50 Sterling |
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No.5 Fort Gilkicker by David Moore A4 format, card covers, 44 pages; with drawings, black and white photographs and plans explaining the construction, purpose and history of the great Coast Defence battery at Stokes Bay, Gosport. EAN 978-0-9570302-1-3 2011 edition Price £5.50 Sterling |
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No.6 Fort Brockhurst and the Gomer-Elson Forts by David Moore A4 format, card covers, 60 pages with drawings, monocrome and colour photographs and plans explaining the construction, purpose and history of the Gosport Advanced line of forts: including Forts Gomer, Grange, Rowner, Brockhurst and Elson. ISBN 0 9548453 9 0 EAN 978-0-9548453-9-1 2011 edition : Price £6.00 Sterling |
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No.7 Fort Fareham by David Moore A4 format, card covers, 24 pages; with drawings, colour photographs and plans explaining the construction, purpose and history of the only one of the outer line of forts constructed to defend the western approach to Portsmouth Harbour. ISBN 0 9513234 8 2 EAN 978-0-9513234-8-9 2009 edition Price £5.50 Sterling |
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No.8 The Stokes Bay Defences by David Moore A4 card covers : 44 pages illustrated with drawings, plans and colour photographs explaining the construction, purpose and history of the ramparts, moats and supporting batteries constructed to defend the western approach to Portsmouth Harbour. ISBN 0 9513234 1 5 EAN 978-0-9548453-1-5 2010 edition Price £5.50 Sterling
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No.9 Fort Nelson - A History and Description by Garry Mitchell and David Moore A4 card covers : 16 pages illustrated with drawings, plans and colour photographs explaining the construction, purpose and history of Fort Nelson. ISBN 0 9513234 2 3 EAN 978-0-9548453-2-2 2010 edition Price £2.00 Sterling
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No.10 The East Wight Defences by David Moore A4 card covers : 48 pages illustrated with drawings, plans and colour photographs explaining the construction, purpose and history of the eastern defences of the Isle of Wight and Sandown Bay- including Sandown Fort, the batteries at Sandown Barrack, Yaverland, Redcliff, Culver, Nodes Point, Steynewood, Puckpool and Bembridge Fort. ISBN 0 9513234 3 1 EAN 978-0-9548453-3-9 2010 edtion Price £5.50 Sterling
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