29 August 1942 Part 1

29 August 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 225°, 1 metre per second. No special occurrences.

Construction, Naval Artillery Battalion 604 — Batterie Mirus. Nos. 1 and 2 guns: no important changes; work already begun continued. No. 3: temporary turret cables were being replaced by permanent cables, leaving the gun ready for action only under manual operation until about the middle of the following week. No. 4: construction and machinery work continued. Fire-control post: the temporary long-base apparatus was erected; final work continued.

Batterie Strassburg: no changes. Batterie Steinbruch: following removal of formwork, ammunition rooms at No. 1 were fitted out and the conveyor installed. Preparations for pouring at No. 2 completed; pouring scheduled for Monday. Reinforcement weaving for concreting continued at Nos. 3 and 4. The reserve fire-control post’s supporting structure was complete, but boards for cladding were lacking.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605 — Batterie West. Fire-control post: excavation and blasting continued. Turret 1: shuttering and reinforcement continued. Turret 2: reinforcement for the fifty-centimetre base continued and circular-platform shuttering begun. Turret 3: circular-platform shuttering begun. Turret 4: shuttering and reinforcement at the circular platform; accommodation-barrack base poured and barrack erection begun. Machinery bunker: excavation and blasting continued. Galley and communal room: blasting and excavation continued.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scan 0494–0495.