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- Fort Baker: Battery Spencer
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- Battery Spencer's
Gun 2 circa 1913. Photo courtesy of John Martini
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- For half a century, Battery Spencer was
one of the most strategically important site guarding the Golden
Gate. Construction started in 1893 and was completed in 1897.
Under the provisions of War Department General Order 16, dated
14 February 1902, it was named for Major General Joseph Spencer
of the Continental Army, a hero of the Revolutionary War, who
died in 1789. It was initially armed with three M1888 12-inch
breech loading rifles (Made at Waterlieviet Arsenal and serial
numbered 10, 16, and 17) mounted on M1892 barbette mounts (made
at Watertown Arsenal and serial numbered 1, 4, and 5.) In 1917
one gun was removed to rearm Battery Chester at Fort Winfield
Scott. The remaining two guns were removed and scrapped in 1943.
Today the battery is very popular with the public and has been
seen in movies and television.
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- Layout
of Battery Spencer, 1923
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- Drawings courtesy of
Mark Berhow
- Battery
Spencer, circa 1913
- Photographs are
part of the Theodor Horydczak Collection of the Library of Congress
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- Theodor
Horydczak in the breech of one of Battery Spencer's guns
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- Soldiers
leaning against gun 3
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- Cleaning
gun number 2
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- Ammunition
being stored behind gun number 3
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- Gun
number 2
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- Theodor
Horydczak loading one of the guns
- Battery
Spencer Today
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- Endicott and earlier
building at the entrance of the Battery Spencer and Ridge Battery
Area. October 2000
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- Emplacement for gun
3. October 2000
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- Battery Commander's
Station. October 2000
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- Emplacement for Gun
2. October 2000
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- Emplacement's for
Gun 2 (foreground) and 1 (background) October 2000
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