[1] Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, the Indian Muslim activist, was interned here after the unsuccessful Silk Letter Movement against the British Raj.

[2] In the interwar period, Fort Verdala housed the Royal Marines, before being converted into a naval store.

In 1940, it was commissioned as a stone frigate with the name HMS Euroclydon, and was used as a school for children of Royal Navy personnel.

The school was closed in 1943 due to the threat of aerial bombardment, and the fort became a POW camp once again.

In 1945 it briefly served as a demobilisation centre, but was converted back into a naval school in 1947, housing only primary age children of Royal Navy personnel from the 1950s.