Exploring The Mysteries Of A Massive Abandoned Sea Fort On Horse Sand Solent (Palmerston Fortress)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Exploring inside of an abandoned sea fort Horse Sands which is one of the Solent forts between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. This was an epic explore which took months of planning and I am so excited to share it! Please subscribe for more: / nickturbo4000
Filmed with Sony A7Sii, Panasonic gh4, Phantom 3 and Go Pro.
Edited and graded in Adobe Premiere Pro 2017 and the music was created by me in FL Studio.
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The fort is one of four that were built in the 19th century to protect Portsmouth and the Solent against a potential French invasion.
Horse Sands is the joint largest of all of the UK sea forts and was built with 59 gun emplacements across its two gun floors.
The fort was built between 1865 and 1880 by the time the fort had been finished the threat of a French invasion had diminished and the technology of the guns become out-of-date.
Because of this the fort's were never needed to be used for their intended purpose and became known as "Palmerston's follies" after the Prime Minister who authorised their construction.
The numerous forts built during this period were the most
extensive and costly fixed defense structures built in Britain in peacetime.
Horse Sands was rearmed during the first and second world wars and during this period the fort was painted in a black and white checkered paint scheme.
It was painted in this way as a form of camouflage the purpose was not to make the fort invisible but instead to confuse attempts to attack it by making it difficult to accurately gauge the
distance of the fort.
The fort was deactivated after ww2 and used for coastal artillery up until 1956 in the 1960s the site was declared
surplus to requirement by the Ministry of Defense
In 2012 the company who owned the neighboring forts Spitbank and No Mans announced that they purchased Horse Sands.
The new owner intended to convert it into a museum with displays of the history of all three forts
Within the last month the
three Solent forts had been collectively put back on the market for the guide price of 11 million pounds
I recently uploaded another HUGE explore of an abandoned Prison, check out the video here:
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Exploring Inside Huge Abandoned Sea Fort - (Horse Sand Solent Palmerston Fort) for sale?
little disappointed that we didn't get an actual exploration of the fort, a walk through through each area. a la IKS. Love hoisting the pirate flag at the end.
Yeah pretty disappointing video had to fast forward most of the video
Thinking the same thing...not an exploration.
agree on that!
Agree about the nature of the visit - so much detail overlooked and breezed by... The falg I liked the least....
its on the list :-)
I wish the video had more footage of the fort itself
When I was in the Royal Engineers in 1965 I was on a Diving Course at the RE Diving School in Marchwood, Southampton. We course student divers were taken out to one of the forts in the Solent in a landing craft and we climbed up to the top in our rubber dive dry suits. From there we had to walk out on an I-beam that was used to pull ammunition up with a pulley. When we reached the end of the beam we had to jump off the 100+ foot high beam into the water below. It was a requirement to pass the course. I remember being terrified as I am scared of heights but managed it anyway. I passed the course as top student with very high marks. I was relieved that I only had to do that once. Later in my service I went back to the school as standby rescue diver/Instructor. h we took the course out to the fort to jump off I found that , as the courses junior instructor, I had to demonstrate to the students the correct and safe way to make the jump. I don't know how many times I ended up doing that but I DO know it was too bloody many. Never did it without being terrified of the walk out to the end.
Thanks Phillp
Phillip Davies nice story, thanks.
Respect. Well done.
These forts were our playground as kids......so much fun
As an extra snippet.....
We found The Mary Rose in that same near exact location....... 😉
My dad was the roofer who kept these forts watertight throughout the 70s 80s and 90s
Great stuff but a real battle with the background music.... what a shame.
Really enjoy your explorations! My dad (Barry Gibson, gardener) lives in Bembridge so your videos are very special to me. Ignore any negative comments. Your videos are very well presented, executed, edited, planned and enjoyable. Keep safe and keep on keeping on ... with you in spirit!
I served 3 years in there back in the mid 70s watching this vid i recognized some of the landings in the wings and the out buildings where i used to sometimes work on outside work parties brought back memories
Brilliant
Would make an amazing home 🏠
Fantastic gesture putting up the Jolly Rodger 🏴☠️
Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
too everyone saying the videos disappointing because he just told the story, you do understand thats why we all love exploring is the history behind them
Love this place, fabulous bit of 'offshore' urban expo !
hard to hear over the music at 6:45
That was really cool. I would love to own something like that, and rebuild it to live there.
Wow, some amazing footage there. Worth the Herculean efforts it took!
Cheers thanks very much 😁👍
Best thing youtube recommended in a while
Fantastic.... I didn't mean to spend my evening looking through your films. But I'm glad I did.
I want long videos like this, that I can relax for awhile with vs knowing it'll end in a few minutes and I'll have to pick another video to watch
Great video very entertaining cheers pal love the isle of Wight have been many times👍
Great show and tell from USA state Illinois 👏
absolutely brilliant narration and background info............best ive ever seen and heard!
As a regular Solent user I’m torn between the intrigue and the trespassing aspects. I'll quietly wind my neck in and just say I’m pleased to see you were all wearing life jackets.
If i was a millionaire that would be bought and turned into a big home, amazing.
Used to play in Fort Gilkicker when I was a kid in the 60's.
Epic, I have sailed past the forts many, many times and always wished I could visit to explore. One is now done up but the cost must be huge to maintain. Thanks. Andy UK
Isle of Wight - "La Isla Bonita" of my youth 😍
I love to explore were you are able to get the history of the area. Such as abandoned towns, homes, mining areas and the types. I schooled our children on weekend camping trips, and Drives.
We would go one way and get home another way.
On hot days, we would go around the lake we always camp at and get an ice cream for Hubby Daughter and I, but Son had serbet. We would get a cold drink. Kids got apple juice in a glass apple always. I a Pepsi and he had a Doctor Pepper. Always had at least 8 frozen 2 Lt. and smaller bottles. We always made it back to the camp before dark with enough time to get more wood for the fire and dinner about done.
Our Son takes his Son just for short trips and will leave it to me to show him the places Our family comes from. I have been ordered to instruct him on how to get a vehicle unstuck in any weather.
SO MUCH LOVE FOR THE VIDEO.
I AM GLAD THAT YOU ARE NOT A NEWS CREW AND CUT THE INFORMATION DOWN TO 2 OR 4 MIN.
JUST REMEMBER TO KILL THE ENGINE AND PULL UP THE SLACK , DON'T FORGET THE ANCHOR . WHAT A BLAST. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN VERY YOUNG TO EXPLORE AND BE EXCITED FOR WHAT THEY FIND. EXPLAIN WHAT THEY FOUND AND HOW IT WAS USED OR EVEN SHOW THEM HOW.
I AM EXCITED TO SEE MORE OF YOUR VIDEOS!!!! I SEE GRAIN TOWER POOF .
The BG Music could be a little down so I can hear your voice better without too much noise from the music
thats an amazing place!!! Love how you decorated the table inside, would be a cool photo!
yo that was epic man! keep them coming!
Very well made/put together, top video. 👍🏻
Cool vid 👊
I went on one of those in the 1980s. You could only land directly from the boat. 150 soldiers were based there.
That was great, thanks.
I want to turn that place into a self sufficient garden community
good luck hauling several tons of soil. would be cool though, assuming you can find enough salt-tolerant plants to give good yield. trees would be liable to damage the structure.
One of those things that sounds really nice, but is super impractical.
This got renovated into some flash Accommodation. There's a short clip of about 2 minutes on You Tube after the renovations were done. Has 2 Helipads, a grass area at the top, Deck Chairs etc. Looks nice.
UNSC INFINITY - No that’s the other one, which is still run as a hotel. Check out their website solentforts.com
Well done from a aging pirate! A superb Urbex guys brings back memories of my days exploring many summers ago!
LOVE THE FLAG touch! I'll need the fountain of eternal life soon me otherwise I'll be off to crew the Dutchman!
Absolutely brilliant lads!!!
The original asking price seems not too bad for such a fabulous site. What a totally unique home it would make for someone after a lot of work possibly, BUT when you see what prices some very ordinary homes make it seems not a lot to ask for a totally sturdy and well sited home.
Great vid but more to be seen at some time in future possibly....
Just a thought; when these incredible forts were manned and in use, how did they get supplied with water? Was it piped in, brought by sea in tankers or were the forts built over fresh water springs? The latter may sound far-fetched, but there are springs of fresh water that come out offshore. Maybe the design incorporated drains that collected rainwater into a tank.
Anybody have any gen on this?
Nick.
Each of the sea forts had a well which extended down into the chalk aquifer deep beneath the bed of The Solent. When Spit Bank Fort was open to the public for Saturday night hog roasts and disco's you could look down the 400 foot shaft which had electric lights at intervals. It would have been impossible to supply the wartime garrison with enough fresh water without the wells!
They should bring it back to life and treasure the history
Wow what amazing explorers you are! I lived in Pompey for many years wonderful area. Well done for you exploits brilliant
Great pirate exploring ... wish it was a longer video though. Glad you got the dinghy back and sorted the prop - the joys of seafaring. How long did the S&C stay up? Nice filming👍
Such a good video as always, I always look forward to your videos as I live on the Isle of Wight and have tried to gain access into some of these buildings but failed on some but glad that you managed to get it to them all so I can still see. Keep up the good work!
Thank you very much & thank you for watching! 😁👍
Not typing up the vital tender in a shipman like manner: forty lashes with a plastic straw!
WOW,if If i was rich then once cleaned and fixed my dream home
Would be sick to live there
No Man's Land was a great place to explore pre conversion, very similar to this
What a great adventure lads, wish I lived closer!
50 seconds in... I hope that dudes name isn't Dan....
Great voice,thankyou
Very nice work chaps!
Thanks very much! I’m a fan of what you guys do too
make one hell of a private anti zombie island.
Super video. I been on two of these one I worked on one and the other was when it was a museum in the 80s/90s 👍
As a military construct, given the time it took to build, and the cost required, when it was finished, it seemed hardly worth the time, money and effort for what it achieved before it was decommissioned, and then abandoned.
During the Great War with Russia, the combined British and French armies attacked the naval base at Sebastopol from the landward side. This made the British painfully aware that their main naval base, at Portsmouth, was equally vulnerable to attack by both land and sea. The Imperial French Navy had just built a new base at Cherbourg and had acquired an ironclad battleship called "La Gloire", To counter the supposed threat from Napoleon III of France, Portsmouth was ringed with forts both on land and at sea. Of course, by the time they were finished France had been defeated by Germany in the Franco-Prussian War but that's another story!
Amazing place, great movie
What an awsome adventure!
It sure was, can't wait to go back!
Went there today I've never seen so many dead birds and bones every where how you slept there is beyond me it's a pretty creepy place
Wow what a life, wish I was with you guy. Great video, thank you 👍
I’m very lucky to have been able to get on there! Thank you for watching 😁👍
awesome adventure story
Absolutely awesome 👍👌
Great video, love the fort.
Went online to look for it, end now it's a hotel.
Lucky somebody saved it.
Alas, Horse Sands Fort that is featured in this video is still untouched - it's the other forts, No Man's Land & Spitbank that have been refurbished.
Awesome
Anyone who buys those has lost their minds. The work and costs required would be more than building a new one. Because it is in UK waters, it is also subject to all of their building codes. It will be almost impossible to meet those codes. Unless they get variances, there is no way. Even as a museum, vast portions of it would have to remain closed to the public.
Let's go find the prisioner 627
Amazing video guys
Worked on nomans few years ago, when it was being converted, got to crawl all over it especially there areas guest aren't allowed to go now.
absolutely love your videos!
This is awesome!
Perdeu tempo com brincadeiras e nao explorou as instalacoes a contento, com certeza havia mais o que mostrar !!!!
LOVELY :D well done
Is that east cows marina?
Beautifully filmed. What a fantastic site. Was that the fort used for shots in the 1972 Doctor Who story 'The Sea Devils'? That story was shot mainly on location in the area, with the Royal Navy letting them shoot scenes on one of their shore establishments. The addition of the Pirate flag to the fort, at the end of your film was very cool indeed. Great work!
Thanks Brian! I believe the one featured in the Doctor Who episode is St Helens (although I could be wrong) Thanks for watching 😁👍
That Dr Who story was filmed at St Helens fort which is featured at the begining of the video and Norris Castle which you can see a shot of from the yacht in this video and there is another video of on this channel.
I was always told it was Spitbank by my parents. Not sure how they got that wrong if so!
This is privately owned. I wonder if the maker of this video would be ok for the owner to break into their house, film it and post on UA-cam.
I'd imagine the ghost hunters would have a field day out there!
Love the Roger !
Great Vid
Mad bastards! boss video though! :)
Looks like the exact kind of thing you'd see in a modern FPS game
Do you honestly think they were built when we were told?
I go fishijg by them and its so amazing
That flag gives me life
Should get hovercraft and go to hilsea ramparts in hilsea foxes forest Portsmouth
I think that the operative phrase for this video is "without thinking."
Nice video. Shame the music was so loud
Shared on my profile. Thanks
Imagine Taking The Band There .... WITH Everything NEEDED....100 Cases of Beer....Only One Case each of Stoli/ Jack/ Jose ...And Each Members Preferred Equipment.,..The Crew And Engineer.....and Oh Yes Tonza Meat, Fishing Poles.....And NO WAY OFF THE FORT TIL.THE BADDEST ASS ALBUM IN THE WORLD WAS CREATED AND FINISHED! Ka Bb
I'd love to buy it and renovate it then live on it I'm just short of a few mill any offers 😁
Mark Dunbar just move in mate, make them kick you off, hah.
좋아요. 신나요. 재미납니다.
Very cool.. except for the new-age soundtrack.. oh well
Heavy drinking while performing critical tasks. What could go wrong?
You cheeky buggers LOL
*Work was started to clear some of the debris ( day - bree ) **7:04** .* I guess they forgot about the night - bree ;-)
So trespassing on private property is ok to you.
Yes, and I assume you feel the same?
I appreciate you supporting my escapades taking time to watch my video and also by posting a comment, thus driving up engagement, thank you!
#tresspassarmy
I’m gonna go here when the zombie apocalypse happens
Great video , but could you do something about the sound levels , I can't hear you because of music , I am an old fart though .
Fort boyard
Nice video but the music is too loud.
0:47 Fucking Dan... Always climbing all over everything....
The guy who took you there was just a guy with a lot of hair. That doesn't make him a pirate. Pirates murder and steal. If he was a real pirate, he'd be in prison.
Pfft, you should see his collection of downloaded torrent files.
Dazzle camo is sexy