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In addition, several open bastions enclosed, with a mock ravelin block, had to be constructed to house a submarine mining contingent.
Two landscapes paintings from Thomas Gainsborough were commissioned, then still little-known and living at Ipswich for the Governor's Quarters at Landguard by his friend Philip Thicknesse, Lt. Governor of Landguard Fort. Unfortunately, the damp conditions at the Fort destroyed them, but an engraving of one of them survives.