The Harbor Defenses of Tampa Bay

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Documentation for the 2024 CDSG Special Tour: RCWs, RCBs, Inspection reports, Battery Construction correspondance, enginerr notebook, maps, a history of the Tampa Bay defenses, all in a zip file. Click the link to download and save to your computer.

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FORT DADE / Egmont Key / 1899-(1928)/ state park […]

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The Harbor Defenses of Pensacola

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FORT PICKENS /Santa Rosa Island /1845-(1947)/ Gulf Islands National Seashore / MD, MC /KKKK
Langdon/2/12″/BCLR/1923-1947/casemated-WWII
Worth/8/12″/M/1899-1942/4 guns removed 1918, HECP-HDCP 1943
Pensacola/2/12″/DC/1899-1935
Cullum/2/10″/DC/1898-1918/ modified for 2 – 3″ from Trueman 1942
Sevier/2/10″/DC/1898-1934
Cooper/2/ 6″/DC/1906-1917/1 gun repl. 1976, (from West Point) SE
#234/2/ 6″/SBC/ 194? NA /2 guns repl. 1976 (from Ft. J. Custis) SE
Van Swearingen/2/4.7″/A/1898-1921/one gun & […]

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The Harbor Defenses of Mobile

More info FORT MORGAN /Mobile Point / 1833-(1928) /state park /MD, MC /KKKK
Dearborn/8/12″/M/1901-1928
Duportail/2/12″/DC/1900-1928
Test/1/10″/DC/1916-1918/mostly buried
Bowyer/4/ 8″/DC/1898-1918//
Thomas/2/4.7″/A/1899-1918
Schenck/2/ 3″/MP/1900-1923
&/1/ 3″/P/1900-1923
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942-1944/1 covered

FORT GAINES /Dauphin Island / 1821-(1928) / county park /KKK
unnamed/2/ 8″/Rod/1898-1899/covered by Stanton #1
Stanton/3/ 6″/DC/1901-1928
Terrett/3/ 3″/MP/1901-1923

Other Temp sites /?
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/ Pascagoula, MS

Mobile Bay, AL: 1921 Maps PDF (98K) 4 pages […]

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The Harbor Defenses of Galveston

More info FORT TRAVIS /Bolivar Point (-1947) / county park /KK
Kimble/2/12″/BCLR/1922-1943/guns to Moultrie
Davis/2/ 8″/DC/1900-1918/deteriorating
#236/2/ 6″/SBC/ 194? NA
Ernst/3/ 3″/MP/1900-1946/converted to 3-in P

FORT SAN JACINTO / Fort Point / (-1947) / Corps of Eng. prop /MD, MC /K
Mercer/8/12″/M/1898-1943/ partially buried in mud
Heileman/2/10″/DC/1899-1943/ 1 gun ARF, destroyed
#235/2/ 6″/SBC/1944-1946/ partially buried
Hogan/2/ 4.7″/A/1898-1917/ partially destroyed
Croghan/2/ 3″/MP/1911-1946/ converted […]

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