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As originally built, Battery Quarles, Battery Randol and Battery Ash were a part of a larger seven gun unnamed battery that contained five 10" and two 12" guns, all in Barbette carriages. This was the original "main gun line" located on Artillery Hill and they were all accepted for service on 16 Jun 1902. By 1909 the original 4-2-1 configuration of four 10" guns, two 12" guns and one 10" gun had been changed by swapping the last 10" gun with the first 12" gun to produce a 5-2 configuration. The final configuration by 31 Dec 1909 was the first two emplacements were Battery Randol with two 10" guns, Battery Quarles next with three 10" guns and Battery Ash last with two 12" guns.

Battery Benson was added to Artillery Hill in 1908 and added two more 10" guns to the "main gun line" but these guns were more modern and had disappearing carriages not the Barbette mounts of the original emplacements.

**Original Main Gun Line Emplacements**
Emp1	Emp2	Emp3	Emp4	Emp5	Emp6	Emp7
10" M1888MII #39	10" M1888MII #6	10" M1888MII #36	10" M1888MII #37	12" M1888MII #10	12" M1888MII #9	10" M1888 #11

**Modified Main Gun Line Emplacements after 1909**
Battery Randol		Battery Quarles			Battery Ash
Emp1	Emp2	Emp1	Emp2	Emp3	Emp1	Emp2
10" M1888MII #39	10" M1888MII #6	10" M1888MII #36	10" M1888MII #37	10" M1888 #11	12" M1888MII #10	12" M1888MII #9

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