The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States and its possessions between 1901 and 1950. The CAC also
Practice loading of a 10-inch gun on a disappearing carriage at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY, a typical Endicott period installation.
Typical Endicott period battery with components labeled.
USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold, built in 1904, which planted practice groups of mines in the Columbia River during the 1920s. (National Archives and Records Administration)
US-manned 155 mm GPF gun of Battery F, 55th Coast Artillery, France 1918
12-inch gun M1895
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The 12-inch coastal defense gun M1895 and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945. For most of their hist
United States Army Coast Artillery Corps
…chaired by Secretary of War William Crowninshield Endicott. This board recommended a large-scale program of harbor defenses at 29 ports, including guns, mortars, and mine fields. Most of their recommendations were implemented and new defenses were constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers…
12-inch M1895 coastal defense gun being fired by lanyard
M1895 coastal defense 12-inch gun on M1896 disappearing carriage.
A coastal defense 12-inch gun on an M1895 disappearing carriage, showing raised and lowered positions.
A 12-inch M1895 railway gun.