BC station and plotting room, Battery Kinzie
Fort Worden, HD Puget Sound
A.M.T.B. btry Ft. Flagler.

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Battery Command station


The BC station from the east
The northwest corner.
March 2002
Looking southeast.
Detail of the ladder from the potting room to the BC station.
Looking east at the BC station.
The northeast corner.
March 2002
Looking southwest.





Plotting room


The plotting room is located below the BC station, between the #1 and the #2 shell hoists.


The outside of the plotting room.
March 2002
The northeast corner.
March 2002
Looking southwest in the plotting room.
Detail of the flooring in the plotting room.
March 2002
Looking southeast in the plotting room.
March 2002
The northwest corner.
Detail of the ladder from the plotting room to the BC station.
March 2002





Mechanical data transmission system


Battery Kinzie had a system of gears, sprockets, chains and shafts that were used to transmit the aiming data derived by the plotting room to the guns. Some of the parts of this system still remain at the battery.


The plotting room equipment.
March 2002
Detail of the plotting room equipment.
Looking up the data shaft, these sprockets would have been linked to those in the plotting room by a set of chains.
There was a 'T' junction in the data system out side the #2 hoist room, here the signal was split and sent to both guns.
March 2002
The #2 end of the system.
Detail of the plotting room equipment.
The data shaft comes out in the ceiling of the #2 hoist room.
March 2002
Recess at the #1 end of the system
The other side of the #2 end. from here the data would have been sent up to the level of the loading platform and displayed for the gun crew.
March 2002






All photos from Sep 2003, unless otherwise noted.

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