Fort Wadsworth's Endicott Era Defenses
NPS/Gateway NRA Ammunition crew at 12-inch gun battery, 1908. Fort Wadsworth's Endicott Era gun batteries included: Battery Duane: five 8-inch counterweight disappearing guns. Battery Ayers: two 12-inch counterweight disappearing guns. Battery Richmond: two 12-inch counterweight disappearing guns. Battery Barry: two 10-inch counterweight disappearing guns. Battery Upton: two 10-inch counterweight disappearing guns. Battery Dix: two 12-inch counterweight disappearing guns. Battery Mills: two 6-inch counterweight disappearing guns. Battery Hudson: two 12-inch counterweight disappearing guns, one 6-inch counterweight disappearing gun, one-4.7 inch rapid fire gun. Battery Barbour: two-6 inch counterweight disappearing guns, two-4.7 inch rapid fire guns. Battery Turnbull: six 3-inch rapid fire guns. Battery Bacon: two 3-inch rapid fire guns. Battery Catlin: six 3-inch rapid fire guns. To learn more about Endicott Era Defenses, click here.
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Did You Know?
The first transatlantic flight departed from the Rockaway Naval Air Station on Jamaica Bay in 1919. Today, it is the site of Gateway NRA's Jacob Riis Park.