The Searchlight Emplacements were the concrete structures just north of Culliton Point, on the eastern shore of McNabs Island, immediately across from Point Pleasant Park.
During the Second World War, McNabs Island was a key part of the Halifax Coastal Defence Complex, a network of shore artillery and anti-aircraft gun batteries that protected the key East Coast Port.
As a vital link in the North Atlantic convoy system, Halifax Harbour was the target of German U-boats. To thwart an attack, the Anti-Submarine Boom Defence saw lines of five steel nets strung from Herring Cove across the mouth of the harbour to McNabs. If an alert was sounded at night, powerful shore-based searchlights on both shores could sweep the waters around the nets and, if necessary, could then be used (and were used) to help bring down deadly fire on suspected enemy subs.
The concrete bunkers that held these searchlights can still be seen today on the shores of McNabs, silent sentinels of the island's proud military past.
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