Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
2 x S-381 Munitiosauffülraum für 38/40.6cm Batterie.
S-381 Munitiosauffülraum für 38/40.6cm Batterie.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Plan of the area we are talking about here.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
A - on the plan.
This is where you turn off the Quiberon road into the main batterie site.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
B - Narrow gauge railway 60mm that starts just inside the woodland and ends about 2km. It may have been part of the building works railway?
Plan.
Diesel construction train.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
C - The garage for the Batterie.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
C - The garage for the Batterie.
Garage 1963.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
C - The garage for the Batterie.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
D - 2 x S-381 Munitiosauffülraum für 38/40.6cm Batterie.
Two separate bunkers with three main rooms each to hold the guns main ammunition.
Due to the fact that these were captured French guns, probably the only ammunition available was from French stock. The German ammunition factories already turning out huge amounts of materiel. May not have added 340mm French ammunition to their inventory.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
A nice IGN 1953 photo of the bunkers. It looks as though the garage roof had already gone and only the three walls have survived. The narrow gauge railway can be seen running between the bunkers via a block of concrete. This was for a crane to off load ammunition from railway wagons, onto the narrow gauge and then shunted into the bunkers. Either one or the other.
Stacked powder bags.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
60mm narrow gauge railway running from one bunker to the next via the cranes concrete block.
Small crane.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
60mm railway.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
The cranes plinth.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Bolt ring to hold the crane fast.
Crane.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Bunker 1 entrance.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Bunker 1 entrance.
Between 2002 & 2006 there was an art instillation set up here.
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Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Bunker 1.
A view down the passage showing the railway running right through.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Bunker 2.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Bunker 2.
Passage way.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Bunker 2.
Passage way.
Plan
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Bunker 2.
Plan of a S-381 ammunition bunker one large powder room and two shell rooms, I think for armoured piercing and high explosive. A small room may have been for the fuzes.
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details
Fuze.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
This wall and door is French post war. Ammunition would be lifted off the wagon and carried into the room on an overhead railway.
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Overhead block & tackle.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
So why is there a heavy steel door in place. Around 1950the French Navy had it installed. And thats all I know about it.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
The arrangement for the doors and overhead railway.
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Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
One of the rooms in the main ammunition bunker showing how the overhead railway worked.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
The first and third rooms have these heavy steel supports, what did they support for the French Navy.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
What the heck were these used for???
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Details
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
I think this was the fuze room.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Fuze room.
Fuze.
Fuze setting tool.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Fuze room.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
There are I believe three of these three of these, one in each room. If there is an explosion, this panel would blow out thus sending all the force upwards?
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
Area 1a two ammunition bunkers.
Coming out the other side.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.G. Vannes, Brittany.
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