Fort Rodd Hill Lower Battery

Fort Rodd Hill Lower Battery (1895-1942) - Battery Fort Rodd Hill Lower Battery was a reinforced concrete six inch coastal gun battery on Fort Rodd Hill, British Columbia, Canada. Deactivated in 1942.

Lower Battery Gun Emplacement	Lower Battery Magazine
Fort Rodd Hill Lower Battery

Endicott Period (1890-1910)

Part of the Harbor Defense of Victoria and Esquimalt Harbors.

Lower Battery Ammunition Storage

Lower Battery Gun Lifting Gin

Lower Battery Barracks

Lower Battery Barracks Interior

The Lower Battery was built between 1895 and 1898 with two 6" breech loading guns on the site of an earlier gun battery. Vestiges of the old battery remained including a land side defensive compound and outer wall. The compound included a barracks that housed the gun crews for both the Upper and Lower Gun Batteries. The original underground magazine remained a part of the new battery.

Current Status

Part of Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site of Canada in British Columbia, Canada. Displays include furnished barracks rooms, a guardhouse and a smoothbore cannon lifting gin. The gun emplacements do not have guns or carriages mounted but the roller races remain.

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Visited: 22 Jun 2009

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