Big Stone Beach Fire control tower

USA / Delaware / Slaughter Beach /

tower, Second World War 1939-1945, submarine, interesting place

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Used for spotting ships and submarines in WWII.
This one is quite a bit different than the towers found from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island, that are round concrete structures.

This tower is a 3 story corrugated steel 10x10 "hut" mounted on a steel structure with 4 flights of stairs to get inside. The floors were rotted out, making the 2nd floor the only "safe" floor to stand on.

Each floor had 2 pipe standards for mounting two powerful telescopes, one for azimuth, the other for a rangefinder.

Kids used to party here. It is now fenced off, unsafe to be in.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_control_tower

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Coordinates: 39°0'1"N 75°19'42"W

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Big Stone Beach Bennett's Pier, Delaware South Bowers, Delaware Milford Hundred Cedar Creek Hundred Delaware Bay South Murderkill Hundred Kent County, Delaware Dover Hundred Sussex County, Delaware