Emplacement #1
Battery Const. #296,
Castle Bluff, Long Island, HD Seward
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In addition to the gun positions themselves, both emplacements on the upper level contain a powder room, one large shell room and two smaller shell rooms, an air compressor room and a small store room. Each of the small shell rooms housed 100 rounds of high explosive ammunition while the large shell room provided storage space for 400 armor piercing rounds.




Gun Position


The #1 gun, looking northwest.
August 2005
The #1 gun, looking north.
August 2005
The steel shield was blown lose when the gun was destroyed.
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Portions of the gun and carriage.
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Inside the shield. Parts of the hydraulic elevating mechanism are visible on the right, recoil springs and gun tube fragments at center and the manual traversing mechanism on the left.
August 2005
Looking northeast at the #1 entrance to the battery.
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Looking out of the #1 entrance.
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Store Room and Air Compressor Room


Looking west at the doors to the air compressor and store rooms.
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Looking into the store room.
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Looking northwest in the air compressor room.
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Looking south in the air compressor room.
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Shell Rooms


Looking west at the shell room doors.
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Looking into the northeast small shell room.
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Looking into the southwest small shell room.
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The corridor to the large shell room, looking northwest.
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Detail of drain in the large shell room corridor.
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Inside the large shell room, looking northeast.
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The southwest end of the large shell room.
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Powder Room


Looking west at the two doors to the powder room.
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Looking east in the powder room.
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The south corner of the powder room.
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Looking southwest in the powder room.
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The wooden steps in the north corner probably came from the power room.
August 2005






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