Images of Fort Caswell

Battery Shipp (two M1897 5" rapid fire guns on M1896 balanced pillar mounts). Emplacement 1 built 1905, emplacement 2 built 1901 using gun from Old McDonough. Named for 1st Lt William E Shipp, killed at San Juan Santiago, Cuba in 1898. N 33�53.473 W078�01.584 {see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. page 88}	Battery Bagley (eight M1886 12" mortars on M1891 carriages). Re-armed in 1911 with M1890 mortars on M1896 carriages. Named for Ensign Worth Bagley, killed in 1898 at Cardenas, Cuba. N 33�53.472 W078�01.484 (USCGS "Lookout") {see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. pages 134 and 140}
Fire Control stations behind Bagley. N 33�53.462 W078�01.413	Battery Swift (four 8" disappearing guns - one with a different carriage). Named in honor of Capt Alexander J Swift, one of the builders of Fort Caswell. Also Old Battery McDonough (one M1897 5" rapid firing gun on M1896 balanced pillar mount) located next to Swift #1. N 33�53.460 W078�01.303 {see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. page 108 and 110, and page 88}
Battery New Madison (two M1903 6" guns on M1903 disappearing carriages). Named for William Madison, an Army surgeon killed by Chippewa Indians in 1814. N 33�53.540 W078�01.116 {see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. page 98}	Command/Fire Control/Meterological Tower N 33�53.606 W078�01.148 (USCGS)
Battery McKavett-McDonough N 33�53.567 W078�00.910 (USCGS "Fort") McKavett - (two M1898 3" rapid fire guns on M1898 masking parapet mounts) Named for Capt Henry McKavett, killed at Monterey, Mexico in 1846. New McDonough - (two M1902 3" rapid fire pedestal mounted guns to the right of McKavett). Named in honor of 1st Lt Patrick McDonough, killed in 1814 at Ft Erie, Canada. {see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. pages 70 and 72}	Water Tower site N 33�53.603 W078�00.984 (USCGS)
Torpedo Storehouse N 33�53.628 W078�00.952 (USCGS "Stack")	Torpedo Storehouse interior room

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