The Torry Battery is an artillery battery near Torry in Aberdeen, Scotland, which has overlooked the city's harbour since 1860. It was originally constructed for nine guns with a defensible barracks at the rear. In 1881 the battery mounted three 10-inch Smooth bore guns and five 68-Pounder Smooth bore guns.[1]
The battery was adapted for two 6-inch Breech Loading (BL) guns which were mounted by 1906.[2] These were used for practise by the local artillery volunteer unit, the 1st Aberdeenshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers).[3]
Both guns were operational during the First World War.[4]
During the First and Second World Wars it was used to defend the city and was finally decommissioned in 1956.[5] It is now a scheduled monument.[6]
^Stevenson, Ian, 1999. Three Scottish Ports, Redan 46:Journal of the Palmerston Forts Society, Gosport, pp28-48
^Plan of Torry Point Battery, The National Archives, WO78/5198
^Lt Gen Sir James Moncrieff Grierson, Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859–1908, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1909, p.154
^Farndale, Martin, 2008. History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery - The forgotten fronts and Home Base, Royal Artillery Institution, London, p402
^Fort Record book, Torry Point Battery, 1940-1956, The National Archives, WO192/257
^Historic Environment Scotland. "Torry Battery, battery 130m ESE of Old South Breakwater (SM9215)". Retrieved 12 March 2019.
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