Battery Hasbrouck

 (1914-1943) - Battery Hasbrouck was a reinforced concrete, Taft Period 12 inch coastal mortar battery on Fort Kamehameha, Honolulu County, Hawaii. The battery was named in G.O. 59, 1911 after Brigadier General Henry C. Hasbrouck. Battery construction started in July 1909, was completed in October 1914 and transferred to the Coast Artillery for use 10 Nov 1914 at a cost of $ 274,160.65. Deactivated in 1943.

Taft Period (1905-1915)
Originally built as a Taft Period concrete coastal mortar battery with eight 12" M1908 mortars mounted on M1908 mortar carriages divided into two mortar pits (A-B) with four mortars in each pit (1-4).

Shells and powder were wheeled from the magazine to the mortar loading platforms on shot carts.



Current Status
Located on Hickam Air Force Base. Battery still exists as repurposed buildings. No period guns or mounts in place.

Sources:
 * Grobmeier, Alvin H., Officers of the U.S. Army and Others in Honor of whom Coast Artillery Forts and Batteries in Hawaii Have Been Named, CDSG News, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Nov. 1992), pp. 66-67

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