Hoods Tower Museum

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Hoods Tower Museum
Nameboard of the Hoods Tower Museum
LocationTrincomalee, Sri Lanka
TypeMilitary

The Hoods Tower Museum (

Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, Commander of the East Indies Station.[citation needed
]

Fort Ostenburg

The location derives its name from the Fort Ostenburg, a small fort built at the entrance to the inner harbour of Trincomalee by the Dutch and later surrendered to the British 1795.[1] It has been called "the most powerfully gunned fort in Ceylon" with strong batteries at sea level and many guns on the ridge above them. However little of it remains today, mainly due to the constriction of coastal artillery placements by the British since the 1920 in the Ostenburg ridge.

Coastal artillery

A coastal artillery emplacement at Hoods Tower Museum

In 1920, the British began deploying

Ceylon Artillery. The coastal artillery batteries were decommissioned in 1962.[2][3]

Museum

Some of the guns are maintained in functional level for symbolic reasons by the

LTTE
weapons, including an all terrain vehicle that was used by Charles Anthony.

See also

  • Forts of Sri Lanka

References

  1. ^ Seton-Karr, Walter Scott (1865). "Monday, 14th September 1795". Selections from Calcutta Gazettes of the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1797. Vol. 2. Calcutta: O.T. Cutter, Military Orphan Press. pp. 161–164. Retrieved 21 April 2022. We lose no time in announcing the complete success of the expedition against Trincomalé. Official accounts were received this morning of the surrender of Trincomalé on the 26th, and of Fort Oostenburg on the 31st ultimo; a salute was fired from Fort William on the occasion.
  2. ^ Somasundaram, Jayantha. "Britain's strategic base in Ceylon World War II". Island. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  3. ISBN 9781781491157
    .

External links

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