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- Fort Baker: Battery Yates
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- Battery Yates as
viewed from Battery Spencer, October 2000
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- Battery Yates was constructed in 1903
and armed with six M1902 3-inch rifles mounted on M1902 pedastal
mounts 1905. Four guns from Battery Yates were removed in 1942.
Two were emplaced on top of old Fort Point and two were emplaced
at Gravelly Beach, for use as Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat guns. Later
the Gravely Beach guns were also moved to Fort Point. By 1943,
the remaining guns were removed and scrapped.
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- Layout
of Battery Yates, 1919
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- Drawings courtesy of
Mark Berhow
- Battery
Yates Today
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- October 2000
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