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- Fort Barry: Batteries Samuel Rathbone
and James McIndoe
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- Battery Rathbone
in action. Image courtesy of Chuck Wofford
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- Battery Samuel Rathbone was the second
six inch barbette battery at Fort Barry and was also armed with
Model 1900 weapons, serial numbered 19, 29, 33, and 34. These
were manufatured by the Watervliet Arsenal. They were mounted
on Model 1900 barbette carriages serial numbered 42, 43, and
44 from the Builders Iron Foundry and serial number 26 from the
Waterlievt Arsenal. War Department General Order 194 dated 27
December 1904, named the battery in honor of Lieutenant Sanual
B. Rathbone, U.S. Artillerists, who died of wounds received in
the attack on Queenstown Heights, Upper Canada in 1812.
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- In 1922, Battery Rathbone was divided
for better management of the weapons, and the two guns on the
left flank were named for James F. McIndoe, an engineer officer
who served in France as a brigadier general, where he died in
1918.
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- During World War II the guns from these
two batteries were used to defend the minefields outside the
Golden Gate from minesweepers.
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- The battery was inactivated in 1945 and
its guns scrapped in 1948.
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- M1900 six-inch rapid-fire
gun
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- Layout of Batteries
Rathbone and McIndoe, 1943
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- Drawings courtesy
of Mark Bernow
- Batteries
Rathbone and McIndoe Today
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- Photos taken October
2000
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