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- Fort Barry: Battery Patrick O'Rorke
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- Battery O'Rorke was built to mount four
15-pounder, 3 inch guns, serial numbered 90, 91, 92 and 94, on
Model 1903 pedestal mounts. The mounts were built by the Watertown
Arsenal and were serial numbered 68 through 71. It was not armed
for many years, at least not until 1909. The battery was nevertheless
named by War Department General Order 194 on December 27, 1904
in honor of Colonel Patrick Henry O'Rorke. Colonel O'Rorke, at
native of Ireland and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point, was killed at the age of 27 at the Battle of Gettysburg
during the Civil War in July 1863.
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- Each gun could fire shells weighing 15
pounds a distance of five miles. These small guns were important
because they could be loaded and fired more rapidly than larger
weapons. The guns were located at their location to prevent enemy
landings on Rodeo Beach.
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- The battery was inactivated in 1945 and
its guns scrapped in 1946.
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- Layout
of Battery O'Rorke, 1919
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- Drawings courtesy of
Mark Berhow
- Battery
O'Rorke Today
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- Battery O'Rorke looking
from Battery Edwin Guthrie in October 2000. Fort Cronkhite is
in the background.
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- Looking toward Battery
Edwin Guthrie. October 2000.
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