Uploads by Pgrig
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| Date | Name | Thumbnail | Size | Description |
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| 18:28, 4 March 2011 | Wetherill-Mine-Storehouse.jpg (file) |  |
164 KB | This image, taken February 26, 2011, looks northerly at the Mine Storehouse, built in 1940, that lies about 240 ft. north of Battery Varnum. The remains of the tracks that run into the south end of the building once served the tramway system that carried |
| 14:53, 21 September 2010 | Gun1-Site-2010.jpg (file) |  |
339 KB | This photo, made in February, 2010, looks northeasterly from the roadway above the former site of 155mm Gun 1 down across the gun platform. The exposed concrete pedestal that was the central part of the emplacement can be seen at the center of the image, |
| 16:19, 19 September 2010 | Switch-Mechanisms.jpg (file) |  |
856 KB | This image, made in September, 2010, shows two switch mechanisms for moving shells between two pairs of trolley tracks on the ceiling of one of the shell rooms for the flank magazine of Btty Kellogg Pit A. Each pair of I-beam tracks has a short piece of |
| 14:56, 19 September 2010 | Lincoln-A-Flank-Inside.jpg (file) |  |
166 KB | This image, made in September, 2010, shows the inside of the flank magazines of Btty Lincoln, Pit A, now used by the maintenance staff of the Governors Park Condominiums. This view looks easterly. The two original doorway openings for the shell room (lef |
| 14:39, 19 September 2010 | Lincoln-A-Flank.jpg (file) |  |
131 KB | This image, made in September, 2010, shows the west face of the flank magazines for Btty Lincoln, Pit A at Fort Banks in Winthrop, MA. This face of the magazines was formerly a colonnaded, covered walkway, leading from the magazines to Pit A, at left. T |
| 19:11, 17 September 2010 | W-End-1896-Plan-S.jpg (file) |  |
1.17 MB | This image is a scan of a portion of an 1896 plan for the Ft. Banks mortar batteries, drawn by the U.S. (Army) Engineers. For orientation, east is to the right of the drawing. The two circles at top are the northernmost two firing positions of Btty Linco |
| 20:24, 4 September 2010 | In-Wall-Data-Booth.jpg (file) |  |
253 KB | This photo, taken in August, 2010, looks northwesterly at the data booth built into the rear wall of mortar Pit B of Battery Kellogg at Ft. Banks, Winthrop, MA. This type of data booth was associated with the earlier mortar pits that were built; later o |
| 15:59, 3 September 2010 | Cushing-B-Data-Booth.jpg (file) |  |
217 KB | This example of a freestanding data booth is located in front of Pit B, Battery Cushing, Ft. Andrews, Boston, MA. The wooden stats at left hang in a metal framework and can be slid one by one in and out of the booth. These slats likely carried pieces of s |
| 15:31, 1 September 2010 | Firing-Switches.jpg (file) |  |
485 KB | This photo, taken in 2010, shows a switchbox containing the firing circuit switches for the mortars of Pit B, Battery Whitman, Ft. Andrews, Boston, MA. The photo looks toward the northwesterly wall of the pit. Also visible (to the left of and somewhat low |
| 17:21, 31 August 2010 | Whitman-B-From-Above.jpg (file) |  |
509 KB | This image, taken in early Spring, 2010, looks northwesterly down into Battery Whitman, Pit B, Ft. Andrews, Peddocks Island, Boston, MA. The photo was taken from atop the tall bank next to the mortar pit. It is intended to emphasize the depth of the Ft. A |
| 15:48, 30 August 2010 | Types-of-Shells.jpg (file) |  |
235 KB | This annotated photo is from "The Service of Coast Artillery," by Frank T. Hines and Franklin W. Ward, Goodenough & Woglom Co., New York, 1910, p. 275. It illustrates the relative sizes of selected shells for the 12-inch coast defense mortar (at left), t |
| 15:55, 22 August 2010 | Switchboard-Bunker.jpg (file) |  |
197 KB | This photo, taken in August, 2010, shows the hardened entrance of the bunker for the telephone switchboard that served the fort and the Harbor Defense Command . The brick structure-within-a-structure characteristic of such bunkers can be seen in the shado |
| 13:05, 19 August 2010 | Barracks-10.jpg (file) |  |
63 KB | This photo is from the U.S. Army Quartermaster's Report on structures at Ft. Andrews, and probably dates to about 1910. It shows one of the four large barracks buildings numbered on the map (in red) above as 1 through 4. It is probably #3 or #4. The Quar |
| 15:50, 14 August 2010 | Stevenson-DP.jpg (file) |  |
116 KB | The photo, taken in August, 2010, looks southerly across the position of Gun 2 towards the position of Gun 1 of Battery Stevenson, an abandoned U.S. Coast Artillery battery in Fort Warren on Georges Island in Boston Harbor. The directing point for this b |
| 20:32, 31 July 2010 | Ft-Wright-Pit.jpg (file) |  |
148 KB | This photo by J. Solomon of New London, CT was hand-colored and made into a post card, probably around 1915. It was titled "Gun Pitts (sic), Fort Wright, Fishers Island, N.Y." and shows Pit B, one of the 2-mortar pits for the 12-inch mortars of Battery Cl |
| 14:49, 27 July 2010 | Strong-Casemate.jpg (file) |  |
276 KB | A photo of the mine casemate at Fort Strong on Long Island, Boston Harbor, taken in 2010, looks ENE. The red-painted plywood sheets have been applied to keep intruders out of the interior of the casemate, which used to house the generator and batteries th |
| 16:26, 19 July 2010 | Ward-BC-Station.jpg (file) |  |
192 KB | This image, taken in 2009, looks west from outside the ammunition magazines of Battery Ward, Fort Strong, Long Island, Boston Harbor. This is the eastern extremity of the concrete works for the batteries of the fort. The loading platform for Battery Ward |
| 21:20, 17 July 2010 | View-of-Deer-Island.jpg (file) |  |
453 KB | This image, made in 2010, looks out (northerly) from Battery Basinger towards Deer Island. In WW2, Deer Island was the site of Fort Dawes and the Harbor Entry Control Point (HECP) for the Boston Harbor defenses. Today, the development of the massive sewag |
| 18:09, 12 July 2010 | Spinnaker -Isl-With Bunker.jpg (file) |  |
79 KB | This image, taken in 2010, looks westerly from the top of the tall fire control tower on Pt. Allerton in Hull, MA toward Spinnaker Island. Formerly known as Hog Island, the site of Fort Duvall (1920-1947), it was purchased by a developer and almost totall |
| 19:22, 10 July 2010 | MY0039-Ruckman-Disk.jpg (file) |  |
84 KB | This photo is a close-up of the geodetic marker above the subterranean galleries of Battery Gardner at Fort Ruckman, Nahant, MA. This marker, originally set by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS) [now the National Geodetic Survey, NGS] in 1934 and |
| 18:17, 4 July 2010 | Hitchcock Gun 1.jpg (file) |  |
423 KB | Photo, taken in 2009, looks east at the mounting for Gun #1 of Battery Hitchcock in Fort Strong. Pit at center of mounting enabled the counter weights of this 10-inch disappearing carriage gun to sink into the ground, raising the gun into battery (firing |
| 17:42, 24 June 2010 | Timing example.jpg (file) |  |
61 KB | This example shows the sequence of fire control-related steps unfolding against a time scale in seconds, which is laid out across the middle of the diagram. It is taken from "FM 4-10: Coast Artillery Gunnery," (U.S.) War Department, Army Field Printing Pl |
| 14:46, 24 June 2010 | Plotting room casemated.jpg (file) |  |
261 KB | This image looks ENE from in front of Pit A, Battery Whitman, Fort Andrews, Peddocks Island, Boston Harbor at the casemate that housed the plotting room of that battery of 12-inch coast defense mortars from about 1915 until 1940. The walls of the casemate |
| 18:24, 22 June 2010 | Mortar bty mark.jpg (file) |  |
246 KB | This survey marker, likely set between 1905 and 1920, is located on top of the parapet that separates mortar pits A and B of Battery Whitman at Fort Andrews, s Coast Artillery fort on Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor. The point marked is the countersunk h |
| 13:24, 9 June 2010 | Twin FC towers.jpg (file) |  |
71 KB | These twin fore control towers on Swallow Cave Rd. in Nahant, MA, were built at the beginning of WW2 to direct guns in Boston's harbor defenses. Each tower is about 65 feet tall and provided space for three observation levels, most of which were base end |
| 16:25, 17 May 2010 | DPF McCook.jpg (file) |  |
657 KB | This pillbox housed a depression position finder (DPF) for Battery McCook. This image, taken in 2010, shows the observation slit for the pillbox. It has two steel shutters, the right one of which is rusted into the open position. The pillbox is entered th |
| 00:25, 17 May 2010 | Parade Ground, 2010.jpg (file) |  |
524 KB | This photo, taken in 2010, looks westerly from a point in front of the former location of barracks building #2 (see map above) along the parade ground, towards the ruined Administration Building. The roof of that building appears to have fallen in after a |
| 23:08, 16 May 2010 | Bumpus CRF.jpg (file) |  |
482 KB | This photo, taken in 2010, looks northerly at the Coincidence Range Finder (CRF) station for Battery Bumpus, a concrete blockhouse built over the position of Battery Rice, Gun #1, which was never installed after the battery was constructed. The position |
| 20:10, 15 May 2010 | Whitman A Firing.jpg (file) |  |
310 KB | This photo, likely dating to the early 1940s, shows Pit A of Battery Whitman at Ft. Andrews firing two of its M1890 mortars. The photo, likely taken originally by the U.S. Coast Artillery, was reprinted from "The Military History of Boston's Harbor Islan |
| 18:35, 11 May 2010 | Plotting Board Analog.jpg (file) |  |
80 KB | Image is from "Fire Control and Position Finding: Background", Bolling W. Smith, in "American Seacoast Defenses: A Reference Guide," Mark A. Berhow, Ed., CDSG Press, McLean, VA, 2004. Used by permission of Mark Berhow, Coast Defense Study Group, 2010. |
| 18:23, 11 May 2010 | Whistler-Hearn Plate XXVI.jpg (file) |  |
155 KB | This image is from "The Service of Coast Artillery," Frank T. Hines and Franklin W. Ward, Goodenough & Woglom Co., New York, 1910. ~~~~ |
| 18:22, 11 May 2010 | Whistler-Hearn Plate XXV.jpg (file) |  |
119 KB | This image is from "The Service of Coast Artillery," Frank T. Hines and Franklin W. Ward, Goodenough & Woglom Co., New York, 1910. ~~~~ |
| 18:31, 30 April 2010 | Crumbling Barracks.jpg (file) |  |
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