Battery 246

Battery Name: Battery Construction Number 246
Harbor: Columbia River
Location: Fort Columbia

Eponym: not named

Current status: -State of Washington retrieved two guns from Fort McAndrews, Argentia, Newfoundland, and restored them, and installed them in Battery 246 in 1994. The battery is in excellent shape. One powder room has an interpretive display complete with

Information from RCW Form 1 (date): April 30, 1945
Battery commenced: Oct. 28, 1942
Battery completed: not completed
Date of transfer: Feb. 2, 1945
Material of construction: reinforced concrete
Cost to date of transfer: $220,168.76
Type of data transmission: telephones furnished and installed by the Signal Corps.
Trunnion elevation in battery: 82.07 ft.
Datum plane: mean sea level
Sources of electric current: Diesel driven electric generators. Procured and installed by the Ordnance Department. Voltage: 440 AC, 3 phase, 3 units with a capacity of 125 kW each. Max. 35 kW req. for utilities. Max. 80 kW req. for non-battle conditions. Commercial power provided, capacity 50 kW. No auxiliary power unit provided.

Armament: 2 gun emplacements

# 1:
# 1: Carriage Type, barbette: Model, M4: Serial No., 17: Manufacturer, Wellman Eng. Co., Akron, OH:
Motor, 10 hp, 70V, DC

# 2:
# 2: Carriage Type, barbette: Model, M4: Serial No., 18: Manufacturer, Wellman Eng. Co., Akron, OH:
Motor, 10 hp, 70V, DC

Historical Notes and Comments: Constructed by Govt. Forces. Construction authorized by Dir, Cons. No. FS-283 and was designated Job No. Ft. Columbia FS-1. Battery transfrred with the following incomplete items: autodyne installations; elevating mechanisms; installation of gun tubes and electrical wiring and connections within the shields. Carriages installed. Guns on site. Carriages removed 1946-47 and sent to San Francisco.