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The battery was then disarmed and transferred to the Admiralty in 1904 as part of a shore training establishment HMS Ganges. It has suffered much damage since HMS
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It was built with seven sides using brick and earth. It was surrounded with a dry ditch and had three magazines. Originally armed with 14
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closed in 1976 and became a police training centre which has in turn closed.
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Plans of Shotley Battery, The National Archives, WO78/2776
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Naval Training school, on the same site as an existing
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Shotley
England
Shotley Battery is located in Suffolk
51°57′29″N 1°16′26″E / 51.958°N 1.274°E / 51.958; 1.274
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