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[[File:Gelaspus Point Locale 2024.jpg|left|thumb|155x155px|Tower Locale 2024]] | Loc. 154 was a WWII Fire Control Site in Kennebunk ME.[[File:Gelaspus Point Locale 2024.jpg|left|thumb|155x155px|Tower Locale 2024]] | ||
[[Category:Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth]] | [[Category:Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth]] | ||
[[Category:Harbor Defenses of Portland]] | [[Category:Harbor Defenses of Portland]] | ||
[[File:Great Hill FCT Final.jpg|left|frameless|Gelaspus Point FCT]] | [[File:Great Hill FCT Final.jpg|left|frameless|Gelaspus Point FCT]] | ||
[[File:Gelaspus Point FCS RCW 1943 2-2.jpg|right|frameless|239x239px]] | [[File:Gelaspus Point FCS RCW 1943 2-2.jpg|right|frameless|239x239px]] | ||
Completed in 1943 for $16.514, this station was the most northern FC station for the [[:Category:Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth|HD Portsmouth]]. It served only one gun battery, Battery 103 at [[Fort Dearborn]] with a DPF operated by 6 men. The tower had a second observation level which was designed for the never built [[Cape Elizabeth MR|Battery 101]]. AAIS-OP 13 was inside a faux wooden steeple on the roof. A wooden cottage surrounded the first two stories of the tower to aid in camouflage and provide barracks for the crew manning the tower (and searchlights). The reinforced concrete walls were 10" thick and were splinter proof. This station was very similar in design to the one at [[Halibut Point MR]]. This station was demolished in 1949 shortly after the Army's lease was up. | Completed in 1943 for $16.514, this station was the most northern FC station for the [[:Category:Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth|HD Portsmouth]]. It served only one gun battery, Battery 103 at [[Fort Dearborn]] with a DPF operated by 6 men. The tower had a second observation level which was designed for the never built [[Cape Elizabeth MR|Battery 101]]. AAIS-OP 13 was inside a faux wooden steeple on the roof. A wooden cottage surrounded the first two stories of the tower to aid in camouflage and provide barracks for the crew manning the tower (and searchlights). The reinforced concrete walls were 10" thick and were splinter proof. This station was very similar in design to the one at [[Halibut Point MR]]. This station was demolished in 1949 shortly after the Army's lease was up. | ||
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Loc. 154 was a WWII Fire Control Site in Kennebunk ME.
Completed in 1943 for $16.514, this station was the most northern FC station for the HD Portsmouth. It served only one gun battery, Battery 103 at Fort Dearborn with a DPF operated by 6 men. The tower had a second observation level which was designed for the never built Battery 101. AAIS-OP 13 was inside a faux wooden steeple on the roof. A wooden cottage surrounded the first two stories of the tower to aid in camouflage and provide barracks for the crew manning the tower (and searchlights). The reinforced concrete walls were 10" thick and were splinter proof. This station was very similar in design to the one at Halibut Point MR. This station was demolished in 1949 shortly after the Army's lease was up.
SOURCES and REFERENCES
HD Portsmouth Annex 1945
1943 Report of Completed Works