Battery Godfrey

Battery Godfrey’s 12-inch guns were the first of that scale mounted in the country, in 1892, a sign of San Francisco’s strategic importance. The guns were mounted on fixed barbette carriages that always pointed over the parapets. The targeting system used multiple observation posts scattered along the coast to telephone data on the approach of enemy ships to artillery crews.

National Park Service Website

Battery Godfrey is one of the sites of the FOR-SITE project Home Land Security, on view September 10–December 18, 2016.