Second HDSD Page: More detail on forts

FORT EMORY /Coronado Heights /Former Navy radio facility, currently used for training / KK

#134/2/16″/ CBC /1944 NC /unofficially named Gatchell
Grant (#239) /2 / 6″/ SBC/ 1943-1946/
Imperial / 4/ 155 mm/ PM
AMTB Cortez / 2/ 90 mm / F /1943-1946 / Coronodo Beach MR, Silver Strand, destroyed

FORT PIO PICO /North Island /1906-1919 (to Navy 1935)/ Naval Air Station/X
Meed / 2 / 3″/ P/1902-1919/ guns to Rosecrans, destroyed
Pio Pico / 2/ 90 mm/ F/1942-1943/ guns later moved to AMTB Fetterman

FORT ROSECRANS /Point Loma /1899-1958/ Navy Base, Natl. Cem. Cabrillo N.M. /MD, MC /KKKK
Ashburn (#126)/ 2/ 16″/ CBC/1943-1948/ modified
Whistler /4/12″/ M/1916-1942/guns from DeSoto, extensively modified
White /4/12″/M/1916-1942/
Wilkeson /2/10″/DC/1900-1943/
Calef /2/10″/ DC/1900-1943
Strong /2/ 8″/ BCLRN/1941-1946
#237/2/ 6″/SBC/1943-1946 /unofficially named Woodward
Humphreys (#238)/2/ 6″/SBC/1943-1946/
Zeilin /2/ 7″/ NP/1937-1943 / buried
Gillespie /3/ 5″/ NP/1937-1943/empl. 1 destroyed, 2 & 3 overgrown
McGrath /2/ 5″/ BP/1900-1943/repl. by 2-3″ guns from Pio Pico, 1919
Fetterman /2/ 3″/ MP/1900-1917/destroyed July 1940
AMTB Fetterman /2/90 mm/ F/1943-1946/destroyed
AMTB Cabrillo /2/90 mm/ F/1943-1946/destroyed
Point Loma /4/155 mm/ PM /

San Diego, CA: 1921 Maps PDF (177K) 6 pages $0.30 / 1944 Maps PDF (192K) 5 pages $0.25

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