Roker, Roker Pier, anti motor torpedo boat battery

HER Number:
12696

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Roker, Roker Pier, anti motor torpedo boat battery

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Coastal Battery

Site Type: Specific:
Anti Motor Torpedo Boat Battery

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
There were guns on the end of the piers. At the end of Roker Pier just beneath the lighthouse, there is a concrete structure. NAA suggest that this was an anti-motor torpedo boat battery. All that survives is a concrete platform with no entrance. A photograph of the structure taken soon after the war shows some form of storage bays to the front of the lighthouse, but these no longer stand. Further research is required. No information was found in Tyne and Wear Archives or Durham Record Office.

Easting:
4159

Northing:
5870

Grid Reference:
NZ41595870

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Rudd, pers comm, 2009; Penny Middleton, Northern Archaeological Associates, 2012, Roker Lighthouse and Pier, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Building Recording and Statement of Significance