Soon after, the fort was abandoned for a considerable period, and in 1975 it was leased by the Government of Malta to a local farmer, who used it to raise pigs from 1982 to 2005.

[6] Despite being a pigs farm and a considerable amount of modern debris,[5] the fort still retains four[2] of its original complement of fourteen Victorian 12.5-inch 38 ton rifled muzzle-loading guns mounted on dwarf carriages.

A square building above the gate may be a later addition from the early twentieth century, when the fort was used as a military base long after its surface fortifications were obsolete.

A World War II-era pillbox has been erected inside the Victorian fortification, and shows above the fort's profile when viewed from the sea.

The gatehouse faces toward the landward end of Delimara Point, reached by a tarmac road that runs outside the north ditch.

The glacis is more intact along the south ditch, giving a better impression of how the fort would have looked when originally built.

Like all the polygonal forts in Malta, the limestone faces of the scarp and counterscarp have eroded substantially since they were originally cut, in places to a depth of as much as a metre.

The ditch is also considerably overgrown, and polluted with general rubbish, unfortunately true of all the Victorian forts in Malta.

The fort is in danger of collapse, mainly due to coastal erosion and wave action which were only made worse with the building of the Delimara Power Station and the breakwater of the Malta Freeport nearby.