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-Naval Port War Signal Station; controlling ship movements in and out of Harwich Harbour, Stour and Orwell and a remote-control station for defensive minefield in the harbour entrance.
On top of the Fort, Observers witnessed and plotted many air raids, German minelaying actions, shipwrecks, and air crashes. Then, in 1944, in a probable false alarm, the Landguard guns opened up on supposed German midget-sub raiders in the harbour entrance. Later that year, Allied landing ships loaded at the former RAF piers just to the north.