Fort Siloso
6_Inch BL Battery - Magazine Passageway
LEFT: A plan of the Magazine with the Passageway between each Ammunition Hoist highlighted.
The numbers show where the photographs were taken from.
1: The entrance ramp leading down in to the Magazine.
2: As you reach the end of the entrance ramp, you come to the entrance to the Cartridge Store. This can be entered as the doorway is no longer barred as shown.
3. Look right at the end of the ramp and you can see the Shell store for the No.1 Gun straight ahead. To the right is a small storeroom. To the left, beyond the barrier, is the No.1 Gun’s Ammunition Hoist.
4. Looking left along the Passageway. On the left-hand wall can be seen Ammunition Hatches. At the far end, on the right, is the No.2 Gun’s Shell Store and Ammunition Hoist.
5. Looking back from the far end of the passageway. On the right wall is an ammunition hatch. On the left foreground was an Ammunition Hoist for the 9.2 Inch BL Gun.
6. This is the extension built when the emplacement was reconstructed to emplace two 6-Inch QF Guns. It served as a Shell Store for the No.2 QF and later BL Gun. The doorway at the far end leads to stairs up to the No.2 Gun. The Ammunition Hoist on the right.
7. The location of the No. 2 Ammunition Hoist and the shaft up which ammunition was raised to the gun.
The fan helps to provide ventilation for visitors to the Magazine. Even with this fan and all the additional ventilation installed in the Magazine, it is quite easy to understand what conditions would have been like for soldiers working in here.
8. How the view back along the extension used to look. In the wall was an Ammunition Hatch leading into the Cartridge Store. There would have been a steel door on the hatch in the days when the Battery was active.
9. The same view today. The Ammunition Hatch has been totally destroyed to create a doorway. This gives visitors a false impression of the Magazine, and is really tampering with the history of the Fort. Visitors would be quite capable of making use of the doorway near the entrance to the magazine. This is however, not the worst modification made to the Fort.