Lower Battery (Victoria)

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Lower Battery is the largest battery in the fort, containing two 6-inch gun positions, an underground magazine, a guardhouse, store buildings and the large Casemate Barracks area.

Lower Battery has been restored to represent the 1920-39 period of the fort's history. Uniforms and weapons of the time are displayed in the bedroom of the guardhouse. You can enter the underground magazine and hear what it was like to work with high explosive - told by the men who did it!

Up on the ramparts of Lower Battery, a breathtaking view may be had of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Olympic Mountains, Fisgard Lighthouse, and the Royal Canadian Naval base at Esquimalt. This is definitely a photo-opportunity! Down through the covered passage, past the loopholed wall, is the fort's main accommodation area, the Casemate Barracks.

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The Lower Battery (1895 - 1942) had two 6-inch MK6 guns on MK4 disappearing carriages. Also here is a 6-inch quick-firing naval gun (1923 - 1940). A 40mm AA gun was on the #1 gun position in WWII.

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