Report - St Margarets Deep Shelter a.k.a. Z Rocket, nr. Dover - January 2013

[sirjonnyp]

So on Saturday morning I was supposed to be in Dover at 9.30. After a very heavy drinking session on Friday night and climbing in somewhere that I definitely shouldn't have been, and almost didn't get out from, I was woken at 9.45 by silverainbow saying he was going to be a bit late. In my drunken state I made my way to the station, and was able to get into Dover by 10.30, be up at St Margarets by 11, and forget my tripod in the process Cheers to Silverainbow for letting me borrow his, even if the release didn't fit

Explored with Silverainbow, Will, and Starlight. Cheers guys

Some history from Underground Kent:

At St Margaret's Bay there is the underground deep shelter for St Margarets 5.5" Battery. This site was the first one to use the unrotated projectile known as the Z - Rocket which was a anti - aircraft (AA) weapon. It was officially known as a UP or unrotated projectile. It was not particularly accurate, but the thinking was that if fired in large enough amounts an enemy plane just might get hit.

Cheers for reading

SJP​