Black Rock Battery (Victoria)
| military, fortification, artillery battery
Canada /
British Columbia /
Victoria
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/ Canada
/ British Columbia
/ Victoria
World / Canada / British Columbia / Capital
military, fortification, artillery battery
(1893 - 1956), Esquimalt
Two 12-pounder quick-firing MK1 ANti-Motor Torpedo Boat (AMTB) guns were located here. One searchlight was located here in WWII. The guns were transferred to Golf Hill Battery in 1940 but were later replaced. In 1956 the battery became a Naval training battery with two 3-inch gun turrets. Site still exists, but no public access.
www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/bc2.html
Gun Salutes. A battery located at Black Rock (48° 25.7’N 123° 26.l’W approx) will fire and return national and personal salutes as required and when prearranged.
Two 12-pounder quick-firing MK1 ANti-Motor Torpedo Boat (AMTB) guns were located here. One searchlight was located here in WWII. The guns were transferred to Golf Hill Battery in 1940 but were later replaced. In 1956 the battery became a Naval training battery with two 3-inch gun turrets. Site still exists, but no public access.
www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/bc2.html
Gun Salutes. A battery located at Black Rock (48° 25.7’N 123° 26.l’W approx) will fire and return national and personal salutes as required and when prearranged.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 48°25'41"N 123°26'11"W
- Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot Rocky Point 15 km
- Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) Ault Field 54 km
- Naval Magazine Indian Island 64 km
- Naval Submarine Base Bangor 89 km
- Jim Creek Naval Radio Station 112 km
- Joint Base Lewis-McChord 149 km
- JBLM North 153 km
- Yakima Training Center 282 km
- Boardman Air Force Range 397 km
- Umatilla Chemical Depot 411 km
- Saxe Point Park 1.5 km
- Esquimalt Harbour 1.6 km
- Esquimalt 1.7 km
- Fleming Bay 2 km
- Macaulay Point Park 2.2 km
- Macaulay Elementary School 2.3 km
- Old Esquimalt 2.5 km
- Naval Officer Training Center - VENTURE 2.9 km
- The Gorge Waterway / Portage Inlet 3.3 km
- Inner Harbour 3.6 km