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Boston Index of Locations and Guns: Pre-WW2

This page has not yet been fully completed (Spring, 2011).

 

Fort
Battery
Guns Date
Andrews Cushing 8 12-inch mortars M1890 M1 on 1896 carriages [Note]  
  Whitman 8 12-inch mortars M1890 and M1908 [Note]  
  McCook 2 6-inch M1900 on 1902 BC 1904
  Rice 2 5-inch M1900 on Pedistal M1903 [Note] 1904
  Bumpus 2 3-inch M1902 on 1902 BC 1904
Banks Kellogg 6 12-inch mortars M1890 M1 on 1896 carriages 1896
  Lincoln 6 12-inch mortars M1890 M1 on 1896 carriages 1896
Dawes   no guns pre-WW2  
Duvall Long 2 16-inch: one M1919 MII and one MIII on M1919 BC 1925
Heath Winthrop 3 12-inch M1888 on 1896 DC 1901
Revere Ripley 2 12-inch M1888 M1 on 1892 BC 1901
  Pope 3 6-inch M1903 on 1903 DC 1906
  Sanders 3 6-inch M1903 on 1903 DC 1906 ?
  Field 2 5-inch M1897 on 1896 BP (guns shipped away 1917) 1901
Ruckman Gardner 2 12-inch M1895 A2 on BC M1917 Model E 1923
Burbeck
2 10-inch M1900 on 1901 DC 1907
Morris
2 10-inch M1900 on 1901 DC 1907
Terrill
3 6-inch M1897 M1 on 1898 DC 1902
Whipple
2 6-inch M1900 on 1900 BC 1904
Vincent
4 3-inch on Pedistal Mounts (dismounted June, 1920) 1904
  Weir 2 3-inch M1902 on 1902 BC (guns removed 1926) 1906
  Williams 2 3-inch M1903 on 1903 BC 1904
Strong Hitchcock 2 10-inch M1888 M1 on 1894 DC and M1896 DC 1899
  Ward 2 10-inch M1888 M1 on 1894 DC 1899
  Drum 2 4.7-inch on Pedistal (shipped away Oct., 1917) 1899
  Basinger 2 3-inch M1902 on 1902 BC 1901
  Smyth 2 3-inch on BC (guns to Basinger 1921) 1906
  Stevens 2 3-inch M1902 on 1902 BC 1906
  Taylor 2 3-inch M1902 on 1902 BC (guns to Dawes) 1906
Stevenson
2 12-inch M1895 on 1897 DC 1903
Bartlett
4 10-inch DC M1888 on 1894, 1896, and 1898 DC 1899
  Adams 1 10-inch (removed 1914) 1899
Plunkett
2 4-inch Driggs-Schroeder M1896 on 1896 Pedistal 1899
Lowell
3 3-inch M1898 on 1898 BP 1900

 

 

The Pre-WW2 Index for HD Boston

The table on this page describes the forts, batteries, and guns that existed in HD Boston between 1899 and 1938.

This links in the table will take you to the pages of this website that deal with each fort or battery. Some of the linked pages have not yet been fully completed.

The dates for the batteries are the dates on which they were transferred to the Army. In those cases in which there are different dates for the guns in one battery, the later date is used in the table.