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List of all US coastal forts and batteries at the Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. website; American Forts Network, lists forts in the US, former US territories, Canada, and Central America; FortWiki, lists most CONUS and Canadian forts; US National Park Service list of parks with forts
When the United States gained independence in 1783, the seacoast defense fortifications were in poor condition. Concerned by the outbreak of war in Europe in 1793, the Congress created a combined unit of "Artillerists and Engineers" to design, build, and garrison forts in 1794, appointed a committee to study coast defense needs, and appropriated money to construct a number of fortifications ...
Defences of a given harbor were initially designated artillery districts, redesignated as coast defense commands in 1913 and as harbor defense commands in 1924. In 1901 the Artillery Corps was divided into field artillery and coast artillery units, and in 1907 the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps was created to operate these defences. [16]
Coastal fortifications in Scotland; Sea mark; Seacoast defense in the United States; Seesaw searchlight; Seymour Tower; Shimonoseki Fortress; Shivering Sands Army Fort; Slough Fort; Subi Reef; Submarine mines in United States harbor defense; Südwall; Sunchado cannons; Suomenlinna; Svartholm fortress
In March 1941 United States Army forces arrived in Sitka, and began construction of a coastal defense battery on Makhnati Island, an islet at the western end of a chain of islets extending westward from Japonski Island. To facilitate this work, a causeway 8,100 feet (2,500 m) in length was constructed connecting Japonski to Mahknati via this ...
NCW operations protect these assets from waterborne threats. These operations occur in coastal areas outside the continental United States (OCONUS), in support of national policy, and are referred to as NCW expeditionary operations, and within the United States (US) as part of this nation’s homeland security (HLS) and homeland defense (HLD). [1]
12-inch coast defense mortar United States: 1895 - 1945 305: 12-inch gun M1895 United States: 1895 - 1945 305: 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun Nazi Germany: 1909 - 1945 340: 340mm/45 Modèle 1912 gun France: World War II: 343: BL 13.5 inch naval gun Mk III disappearing gun United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 343: BL 13.5-inch Mk V railway gun United ...
Insignia of the Coast Artillery Corps at the Coast Defense Study Group; Unofficial organization chart for HD Boston; List of all US coastal forts and batteries at the Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. website; American Forts Network, lists forts in the US, former US territories, Canada, and Central America; FortWiki, lists most CONUS and Canadian ...