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Guns on Robben Island

flickr-94971865.jpg Guns on Robben IslandThumbnailsOld Robben Island Ferry

9.2" guns built during the Second War War to defend Cape Town. The last one was only completed after the war in November 1945. On 24 October 1952 the battery was renamed the "De Waal Battery" in honour of Brigadier De Waal who built up the coastal defences of Souh Africa.