Harbor Defenses of Sitka, Alaska

LOCATION : Clam Island (Fort Rousseau)

Base End Station B1 S1 for Battery 292 and Searchlights No. 11 and No. 12

The Base End Station B1 S1 for Battery 292 was positioned atop a 90-foot timber tower.  The station was completed and manned through 1944.

Searchlights No. 11 and No. 12 both had splinter-proof concrete shelters with metal-plated wooden doors for protection.  There was a splinter-proof concrete double Distant Electric Control (DEC) Station built that housed the controllers for both searchlights.  A separate power plant provided the power for both searchlights.

The splinter-proof concrete shelter for Searchlight No. 12 and the double DEC for lights 11 and 12 - June 19th, 2004

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