Chesapeake Bay Virginia CDSG 2018 Conference Documents for downloading. These are large files, either zip files or PDFs. Click the links to download and be sure to save them to your computer!
- 1921 Maps PDF (428K) 10 pages
- CB Maps (zip file 6.6 MB)
- CB Projects/Annexes/Supplements 1930-1946 (zip file 100 MB)
- CB Aerial Photographs Signal Corps (zip file 654 MB)
- CB Reports of Completed Batteries/Works 1 Monroe & Wool (zip file 922 MB)
- CB Reports of Completed Works 2 Story & Custis (zip file 1.07 GB)
- CB Battery Construction Correspondence Files (zip file 38.5 MB)
- CB Engineer Notebooks 1900-1928 (PDF file 45 MB)
- CB Inspection Reports (PDF file 34.5 MB)
- CB Quartermaster Records (zip file 198.5 MB)
- Other CB items including documents from the last meeting (zip file 29.1 MB)
- Items from the Casemate Museum (plans for mine facilities, officer’s club, HECP, etc.) (zip file 118 MB)
- Documents on Ft Monroe and CAC and the AEF in WW1 including a thesis on The Coast Artillery Corps on the Western Front, 1917-1918, copies of Liaison – Courier of the Big Gun Corps and some Unit Histories from Bill Ricker (zip file 470 MB)
FORT MONROE/ Old Point Comfort/ 1819 (C.A. School 1907-1948)/ NPS & State park – State Property/ MD, MC/ KKK
#124/2/16″/CBC/NB
Anderson/8/12″ /M/1898-1943
Ruggles/8/12″/M/1898-1943/emplacements partially destroyed
DeRussy/3/12″/DC/1904-1944
Parrott/2/12″/DC/1906-1943/emplacements modified for AMTB #23
Humphreys/1/10″/DC/1897-1910/destroyed
Eustis/2/10″/DC/1901-1942/destroyed
Church/2/10″/DC/1901-1942
Bomford/2/10″/DC/1897-1940/destroyed
N.E. bastion/1/10″/DC/1900-1908
Barber/1/8″/BC/1898-1915/destroyed
Parapet/4/8″/BC/1898-1915/mostly buried
Water/1/8″/BC/1897-1898
Montgomery/2/6″/P/1904-1948/guns removed ’20s, guns repl. ’41, dest.
Gatewood/4/4.7″/A/1898-1914/mostly buried
Irwin/4/3″/MP/1903-curr./all Gs rem. ’20s, 2-3″ P. repl. ’46, SE
AMTB #23/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/1 gun (from Fisherman’s Is) Still emplaced
FORT WOOL/Rip Raps, Hampton Roads/ 1830/ Bird Sanctuary: no public access KK
Claiborne/2/6″/DC/1908-1918/
Dyer/2/6″/DC/1908-1917
Gates/2/6″/DC/1908-1942/converted to #229
Gates (#229)/2/6″/SBC/1944 NA //
Lee/4/3″/P/1905-1946 /2 guns to Ft. J. Custis, 2 guns to Irwin, Ft. Monroe
Hindman/2/3″/P/1905-1946/
FORT JOHN CUSTIS/ Cape Charles/1940/ Fish and Wildlife Reserve/ KK
Unnamed/?/8″/RY/1942-1943
Winslow (#122)/2/16″/CBC/1943-1948/
#123/2/16″/CBC/NB
#228/2/6″/SBC/1943 NA
Fisherman Island/ Fish and Wildlife Reserve/ KK
#227/2/6″/SBC/1943-1965/Power equip. still in place
unnamed/4/5″/P/1917-1919/2-5″/2-6″?
Lee (AMTB #20)/2/3″/P/1942-1944/guns from Lee, Ft. Wool, partially buried
AMTB #24/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946
unnamed/4?/155 mm/PM/
FORT STORY/ Cape Henry/ 1917/ Army post/ MC (MD?)/ KKK
Pennington/2/16″/LRH/1922-1947/original name for all 4 guns
Walke/2/16″/LRH/1922-1947/named as seperate battery in 1941 emplacements covered
Ketcham (#120) /2/16″/CBC/1943-1948/
#121/2/16″/CBC/1943-1948
Worcester (#224)/2/6″/P/1942-1947/prototype for the WW II 6-in construction
Cramer (#225)/2/6″/SBC/1943-1949/
#226/2/6″/SBC/1943-1949
unnamed/2/6″/P/1917-1919 /broken up, in surf
unnamed/2/5″/P/1917-1919/broken up, in surf
Exam (AMTB #19)/2/3″/P/1942-1945/guns from Irwin, Ft. Monroe, buried
AMTB #21/2/90 mm/F/1942-/buried
AMTB #22/2/90 mm/F/1942-/awash
unnamed/4?/155 mm/PM
unnamed/4?/155 mm/PM
