Located in a dominant position over this coastal stretch of coast that sheltered anchored ships, it was a fortification used as a defence against attacks from pirates and corsairs, that frequented the waters of the mid-Atlantic.

[2] Therefore, for these reasons, likely remotes the period of the Corregedor of the Azores, Ciprião de Figueiredo e Vasconcelos (around 1581), or later, immediately after the Portuguese Restoration War, in 1640.

[2] A report by Field Marshal Barão de Bastos in 1862, found that the fort "...is in a good state, but requires that its emplacements towards the sea should be raised to a greater height.

[2][6] Around 1939, there were moves to transfer the property from the Army to the Ministry of Finances, yet, by the beginning the Second World War, it was reoccupied: what little remained of this period was a few elements in cement, that by the end of the 21st century had, along with the structure, fallen into ruin.

[2] A bastion-type fortification, its plan evolved from the characteristic 15th century model, consisting of a trapezoidal layout with four canon emplacements and vaulted-ceiling magazine.