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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (1900-1941) - Battery Kirby is a reinforced concrete [[Endicott Period]] 12" gun battery located on [[Fort Baker]], California. Named in G.O. 16, 14 Feb 1902, after 1st. Lt. [[Edmund Kirby]], [[1st U.S. Artillery]], Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, who died 28 May 1863 of wounds received at Chancellorville, Virginia, during the [[U.S. Civil War]]. Battery construction was begun in 1899, completed in 1900 and transferred to the Coastal Artillery for use 5 Aug 1900 at a total cost of $70,334.18. Deactivated in 1941.
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[[Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby Emp2 - 4.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Battery Kirby Emplacement #2]]
[[Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby Emp1 - 5.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Battery Kirby Emplacement #1]]
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== {{PAGENAME}} History ==
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Battery Kirby was a concrete gun battery with two M1895 12" guns mounted on M1897 disappearing carriages. A magazine containing two shell rooms and two powder rooms was situated between the two gun emplacements. No hoists were required as the ammunition service was on the same level as the gun platform. By 1910 the carriages were modified for electric retracting motors but no traversing, elevating or depressing motors were installed. The Battery had it's own power plant with two 25 KW gasoline motor generator sets.

Behind emplacement #2 in a separate building was a tool room and a guard room. In the back and to the right of emplacement #1 was a separate building for the latrines, one for officers and one for enlisted.

Gun #1 was emplaced 10 Oct 1900, dismounted 21 Sep 1933, shipped to Fort Scott and then shipped and emplaced in Battery Cheney, Fort Mills, Corregidore, Phillipines.

Gun #2 was emplaced 20 Sep 1900, dismounted 28 Aug 1941 and also shipped to Fort Mills, Battery Cheney in the Philippine Islands but was never mounted. Both carriages were scrapped 11 Oct 1942.

In 1910 a BC Station and a plotting room below it were added to the Battery. Cost for the plotting room modification was $ 208.48 and for the BC Station, $ 3,440.03. Both were accepted for use 5 Aug 1910.
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[[Image:FortBakerBatteryKirby Plan.jpg|thumb|left|795px|Battery Kirby Plan]]
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== Current Status ==
{{GGNRA}} No period guns or carriages in place.
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(Battery) 37.827316, -122.490256, {{PAGENAME}}<br>(1900-1941)
(1) 37.827224, -122.4905044, Gun #1
(2) 37.8272728, -122.4899653, Gun #2
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'''Location:''' [[Fort Baker]], California

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* Elevation: 40'
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'''Sources:''' 
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* [http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/battery/html/kirby.html Angel Fire]
* {{Kent}}, page 146-147
'''Links: '''

{{Visited|20 Aug 2009}}
=={{PAGENAME}} Picture Gallery==
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<gallery>
Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby BC Station - 1.jpg|Battery Kirby BC Station Front
Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby BC Station - 2.jpg|Battery Kirby BC Station Interior
Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby BC Station - 3.jpg|Battery Kirby BC Station Side View
Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby Emp1 - 1.jpg|Battery Kirby Emplacement #1
Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby Emp2 - 1.jpg|Battery Kirby Emplacement #1
Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby Interior Rms - 1.jpg|Battery Kirby Magazine Room
Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby Interior Rms - 2.jpg|Battery Kirby Magazine Room
Image:Fort Baker Battery Kirby Interior Rms - 3.jpg|Battery Kirby Magazine Room
</gallery>

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