El Fraile Island — Local services in Ternate

Fort Drum also known as "the concrete battleship", is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. The reinforce concrete sea fort shaped like a battleship was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the harbor defenses at the wider South Channel entrance to the bay during the American colonial period.

It was unique among fort built by the United States before the First World War and early World War II, both as a sea fort and in having turrets. It was captured and occupied by the Japanese during World War II, and was recaptured by the U.S. after U.S. forces ignited petroleum and gasoline in the fort, leaving it permanently out of commission.

Sixty-Eight Japanese soldiers perished in the blaze. It took the U.S. soldiers days before they could even go into the fortress because of the heat.

The now-abandoned fort was named after Brigadier General Richard C. Drum who served with distinction during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War, and died on October 15 1909, the year of the fort's construction. The island and the other former harbor defenses of Manila Bay fall under the jurisdiction of the City of Cavite and...

This is also known as Fort Drum. It was built by the USA after defeating the Spanish and taking over the Philippines. They actually excavated the small island to the bed rock and then built the concrete bunker ontop of it making it look like an unsinkable ship. Later when the Japanese invaded in World War 2 they lobbed everything they had at the bunker but couldn't break down the bunker and the solders inside eventually surrendered without any casualties during the battling. Later when the USA took back the Philippines, the soldiers were able to pull right up to the bunker on ships to battle the Japanese soldiers inside it. Do to the Japanese soldiers not willing to surrender, the US soldiers were forced to pump gasoline into the bunker to burn out the Japanese soldiers. Do to the heat build up inside it took the US soldiers 4 days before the could go inside the bunker. Since the inside was burnt they never used the bunker again. Definitely try to check it out if you get the chance, it is a great example of a truly unsinkable...

The Concrete Battleship of El Fraile Island. Get your best boat man the pray to the Gods that the weather won't let the waves go bad for those factors are crucial if you want to set foot on this island. Go here soon before all the the remains (metals) inside gets swifted by all the thieves who sell them for scraps. Soon this place will collapse by its own and then we'll only realize how rich the history behind this War place that once called The...