Category:Harbor Defense of Prince Rupert



(B) 54.2546833, -130.3460991, Casey Point Battery (1944-1945) (B) 54.241111, -130.333889, Barrett Point Battery (B) 54.255278, -130.363611, Frederick Point Battery (B) 54.288889, -130.356944, Fairview Point Battery (B) 54.3225, -130.415, Dundas Point Battery

(A) 54.330222, -130.279319, Seal Cove Battery (A) 54.298696, -130.386429, Tobey Point Battery (A) 54.329839, -130.394669, Pilsbury Cove Battery

World War II Defenses
In 1936, Major B.D.C. Treatt, Royal Artillery, recommended a defense for Prince Rupert that included a modern 6 inch battery with 45 degree mountings, a 6 pounder duplex gun battery, anti-motor torpedo boat (AMTB) battery, a 12 pounder battery for close defense, and boom and net defenses.

The fixed coast batteries were constructed between 1938 and 1940 and were first armed with available ordnance. The defenses included a spiked boom at Dundas Point across the northern Venn Passage and torpedo/submarine nets across the main shipping channel south of the harbor.

In early 1942 two 8-inch American railway guns were sent to beef up the Prince Rupert defenses for a growing U.S. presence at Prince Rupert. The U.S. Army built a large ammunition depot 10 miles south of Prince Rupert that included 180 building and 23 ammunition bunkers. A large U.S. Army warehouse was built at the docks. These facilities provided a major logistics base for the Aleutian Campaign.

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Links: 
 * North American Forts - Prince Rupert Batteries