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}
New Battery 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/Meteorological 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 Fort 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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