Battery Hobart-- Part 4: A 6-Inch Armstrong Gun

Battery Hobart, names after the War of 1812 casualty Henry A Hobart, was part of the harbor defense for Portland, Maine.

It was originally built as an Endicott Period concrete coastal gun battery  mounting a single  6-inch M1898 Armstrong gun (40 caliber) mounted on a M1898 Pedestal carriage.

This was a two story battery with the gun mounted on the upper story and the magazine below.  Shells were moved from the lower story magazine to the gun loading platform by hand.  No shell or powder hoist was provided.

Electrical power was furnished by  the central power plant.

The gun and carriage were removed to Fort Kamehameha in Honolulu, Hawaii,  on 23 August 1913.

Fort Wiki  Historic U.S. and Canadian Forts has pictures and diagrams of it.

Fort Fisher had a 150-pdr. Armstrong gun during the Civil War (now at West Point).

--Brock-Perry