Site of Second World War Heavy Anti Aircraft Gun 'Diver' Site No. N27, 'Fisherman's Head', Foulness (EHER 20119)

Now destroyed. Site of Second World War heavy anti aircraft battery at Fisherman's Head. It was listed as unarmed in 1942. On 28th February 1945 it was employed as a Diver battery, armed with four 3.7-inch guns, equipped with Predictor AA No.10 Mark I, and Radar AA No.3 Mark V, and it was manned by 410 Battery of 124 Anti Aircraft Artillery Regiment.

October 1998. World War Two heavy anti aircraft gun sites survey: site visit and desktop research. Gun emplacements, TR 0315 9297; accommodation site, TR 0335 9301. Documented in contemporary records as 'N27 Fisherman's Head', a WWII Heavy Anti-Aircraft gun site at Military Grid Reference M476113 on Foulness. Equipment and manning at the site is documented at various dates (<1>): Date Guns Radar Regt Bty 20 May 1942 unarmed none vacant 22 Jun 1942 unarmed none Aerial photographs taken in January 1941 show the area to be open fields with no sign of any emplacements or huts. However, an aerial photograph taken in May 1946 shows the soil or parch marks of at least three square enclosures, 200 yards to the west of Fisherman's Head, in a 'V-shaped' formation facing east. The enclosures appear to have been demolished by that date. Overlaid across the marks are further square marks in a straight line, with more 100 yards to the west - probably 'Diver' anti-flying bomb sites built in 1944/1945. Between the site and Fisherman's Head approximately 19 Nissen huts and other buildings can be seen. <1> - <5> The sites of both the emplacements and the accommodation are now clear and nothing of the WWII structures remains. November 2003. Update. The site is now confirmed to have been incorporated into the anti-flying bomb ‘Diver’ defences with equipment and manning as follows (<6>): Date Guns Radar Regt Bty 26 July 1944 8 x 3.7" Mk IIc - 110 NRHE data transfer: no new information.