Today the guns arn't still manned, the gun pits were all filled in and the guns were scrapped after the war. The documentary I watched was about these guys digging up the the old sites and trying to find where these guns were.
The 14" navy gun "winnie" was not that capable at firing at ships in the channel, it was designed in a counter battery fire role against the German Batteries in France. the allied guns were old ww1 navy pieces that were to slow and inaccurate to hit shipping.
That is why Winston Churchill created the other railguns and navy pieces mentioned in the original thread.
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Winston Churchill was incensed by this situation and ordered the building of new heavy gun batteries in Dover to stop German shipping moving up and down the English channel so freely. Three 6 in guns with a range of 25,000 yards were installed at Fan Bay Battery, Four 9.2 in guns with a range of 31,000 yards at South Foreland Battery, Two 15 in guns with a range of 42,000 yards at Wanstone Battery.
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