Belmont Battery (Victoria)
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Built in the late 1800s /early 1900s to protect Esquimalt Harbour. Belmont Battery (1900 - 1956) is an Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat battery that had two 12-pounder MK1 quick-firing guns. In 1944 both guns were replaced with one twin-barrelled 6-pounder MK1 gun that had a much higher rate of fire. It was removed in 1956.
The 12-pounder gun now on site came from the Royal Canadian School of Artillery in Shilo, Manitoba, on loan to Parks Canada. The twin 6-pounder now on site came later from Norway, and may be the only remaining gun of its type in the world.
www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/bc2.html
Built in the late 1800s /early 1900s to protect Esquimalt Harbour. Belmont Battery (1900 - 1956) is an Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat battery that had two 12-pounder MK1 quick-firing guns. In 1944 both guns were replaced with one twin-barrelled 6-pounder MK1 gun that had a much higher rate of fire. It was removed in 1956.
The 12-pounder gun now on site came from the Royal Canadian School of Artillery in Shilo, Manitoba, on loan to Parks Canada. The twin 6-pounder now on site came later from Norway, and may be the only remaining gun of its type in the world.
www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/bc2.html
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 48°25'52"N 123°27'6"W
- Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot Rocky Point 15 km
- Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) Ault Field 55 km
- Naval Magazine Indian Island 65 km
- Naval Submarine Base Bangor 90 km
- Jim Creek Naval Radio Station 113 km
- Joint Base Lewis-McChord 150 km
- JBLM North 154 km
- Yakima Training Center 284 km
- Boardman Air Force Range 398 km
- Umatilla Chemical Depot 413 km
- Coburg Peninsula 1.3 km
- Esquimalt Lagoon 1.3 km
- Esquimalt Harbour 1.6 km
- Juan De Fuca Soccer Fields (3) 1.7 km
- Royal Roads University and Hatley Park National Historic Site 1.7 km
- Juan de Fuca Golf Course 1.9 km
- Royal Colwood Golf Club 2.7 km
- Hatley Memorial Gardens Cemetery 2.7 km
- Arbutus Ridge Estates 3.5 km
- Mill Hill Regional Park 3.5 km