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Battery Lawerence L. Bruff
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- In February 1917, work began on a temporary
battery to mount two 5-inch rapid fire guns to come from Fort
Winfield Scott's Battery Sherwood. The USACE completed the battery
on 30 January 1919 and turned it over to the Coast Artillery
Corps. The only concrete in the emplacement was in the gun platforms;
the plotting room was a wooden building. The battery's ammunition
magazine was a mere wooden shelter between the guns covered with
a thin layer of earth. This battery was named for Colonel Lawrence
L. Bruff, an ordnance officer who had died in 1911, and it should
not be confused with the later Battery Bluff. Battery Lawrence
L. Bruff was declared obsolete a mere six months after it had
been turned over to the Coast Artillery Corps, making it the
shortest-lived battery in the San Francisco Bay defenses.
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