St Helens Fort

St Helens Fort is an ocean fortress in the Solent near the Isle of Wight, one of the Palmerston Forts close Portsmouth. It was worked because of the Royal Commission on the Defense of the United Kingdom of 1859, with the end goal to ensure the St Helens safe haven. The fortress was composed by Captain E. H. Stewart, directed by Assistant Inspector General of Fortifications, Colonel W. F. D. Jervois. Development started in 1865 and was finished in 1878, at an expense of £123,311. It experienced gravely subsidence which constrained numerous progressions to the plans.

The stronghold is presently in private hands and not open to general society. It was offered available to be purchased in 2003. Any private inhabitant would not approach nearby specialist administrations, in spite of the fact that it has its own artesian well. The other ocean strongholds, all bigger, are Spitbank Fort, Horse Sand Fort and No Man's Land Fort. The Solent Forts - frequently known as "Palmerston's Follies" - were worked because of a French intrusion startle under Louis Napoleon III. This was expected to a limited extent to the teachings of the Jeune Ecole of French maritime reasoning, which underscored assaulting ports with little art, rather than armada activity.