5025 x 3363 px | 42,5 x 28,5 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
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Fort Monckton was constructed in the 1780s. In the 1860 it was considered to be out of date and was used for barracks and in the WW2 it held an anti-aircraft unit. Fort Monckton is currently serving as SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) Training Centre so it is not accessible to public. Fort Monckton is the largest of the four coastal forts built by Henry VIII in 1545 to defend the strategically important British naval harbour of Portsmouth against the French Navy. A bastion trace fort built by 1783, named after the then Govenor of Portsmouth. Its main period of use was during the Napoleonic War, when it was heavily armed. It was rearmed in the 1870s. Thereafter it not rearmed again, accept in the Second World War , when it housed an anti-aircraft battery, and was generally used as a store and barracks. In the First World War it had been used for searchlight batteries. For some time it was used by the Royal Navy; Baltic fleet on its return. First recorded example of the evening illumination of the fleet. Showed lessons learnt from the Crimean War, with the first of the ironclad ships present in the form of 4 1, 500-ton floating batteries. Over 100 gunboats were present, "puffing about like locomotive engines with wisps of white steam trailing from their funnels Fleet Review is a British tradition, where the monarch reviews the massed Royal Navy. It allegedly dates back to the 1400. It is not held at regular intervals (only 44 have been held to date), and originally occurred when the fleet was mobilised for war, or for a 'show of strength' to discourage potential enemies. However, since the 19th century they have often been held for the coronation or for special royal jubilees (indeed, since Edward VII it has been regularly held at each coronation) - this tradition may have come to an end with the cancellation of the 2002 Review for Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee on cost grounds (it remains to be seen if her heir Charles will hold one for his coronation).
