Mount Imbiah
Mount Imbiah on Google Earth. The gun emplacement on the Mount is easy to find. There is a road, Imbiah Hill Road, leading up to the emplacement from Cable Car Road on Sentosa.
During the 1880s, Mount Imbiah was an infantry redoubt manned by 50 soldiers. Two 9 Pounders added to their firepower. An emplacement for a Mark X 9.2-Inch Gun was in preparation during 1910 and the gun itself was operational by 1913. Fire Control for Fort Siloso was provided from Mount Imbiah by this time. Mount Imbiah was declared redundant and abandoned in the 1930s, when the updated Fort Connaught with its three new 9.2-Inch Gun emplacements became operational.
Three views of the gun emplacement. The ammunition hoist to the underground magazine is in the centre of the right-hand photograph. It is hidden behind a small shrub.
Command buildings, including a Position Finding Cell, on Mount Imbiah. As at Fort Siloso, and other forts on Blakang Mati, much of the building work was underground for protection from incoming fire. Buildings which had to be on the surface were constructed with as low a profile as possible to give any attacking force a small target which would be difficult to hit.
The entrance to the underground chambers, and one of the chambers at Mount Imbiah. Down here were storage facilities for the emplacement, and the underground magazine below the gun. Note the lantern recesses in the room.