Fort Paull is a gun battery on the Humber, downstream from Hull. Batteries have been built at Paull by Henry VIII, Charles I during the
Civil War during the siege of Hull and the
Napoleonic Wars. The current fort was build in 1861-4 on the reccomendations of the Royal Commission . The original emplacements for 19 x 64 pounder (29 kg) RMLs were almost completely demolished in 1894 when concrete emplacements for 3 disappearing guns and 2 QF guns were built. A mining station was added in 1886, searchlights in 1907. At the outset of WWI Paull was judged too close to Hull, so was disarmed when new forts were built at Sunk Island and Stallingborough. Used as a training base between
the wars, in WWII it was converted into a magazine to serve the Russian
convoys, and a degaussing station was added.
The fort is now open as a museum.
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