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CDSG Newsletter CDSGThe Newsletter The Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. — May 2011 The Chairman’s Column CDSG Meeting and Tour Calendar Phil Payette Please advise Terry McGovern of any additions or changes at [email protected]. To start off, I would like to thank Chris Zeeman for an outstand- ing, and near flawless conference in Newport. We visited quite a Coast Defense Study Group Special Tour few sites not ordinarily available to the public. We had a great time, Sept. 18 - 25, 2011 despite receiving a few inches of snow one evening. We have had Halifax, Canada cold weather before, but I believe that was the first time ever the Charles Bogart, [email protected] CDSG had to deal with snowfall on an annual conference. But the weather warmed up nicely after that. Our boat crew to Dutch Coast Defense Study Group Annual Conference Island even had to rescue a pair of dogs out in the open water, as May 2012 we watched with wonder. The dogs were fine, by the way. Great Lake Forts I’ve mentioned this earlier, and I will mention it again. Please John Weaver, [email protected] purchase your copy of Artillerists and Engineers: The Beginnings of American Seacoast Fortifications, 1794-1815 from either lulu.com Coast Defense Study Group Annual Conference or the CDSG Press. This book is amazing. We can’t stress enough April 2013 how valuable this book is and how proud of it we are. And while Pensacola/Mobile you are at it, pick up a few of our other offerings. We really need David Ogden, [email protected] to sell through several of our reprinted books. I would also like to thank Mike Fiorini and Karl Fritz for offering Coast Defense Study Group Special Tour their desire to serve on the Board of Directors. Both have been June 2013 around for quite some time now. One of them will be replacing Norway Tom Kavanagh whose term ends this Fall. Please vote for your Terry McGovern, [email protected] ideal candidate! And remember to submit your answers to the questions attached to the ballots. We ask these questions every Other Meetings and Tours year and we do indeed read them. They are very important to us in our decision-making. June 1-3, 2011 Upcoming conferences were discussed at the annual business Corsica, France meeting during the conference. Although we were unable to offer Association Vauban Annual Conference LA/San Diego in the next available slot, we still have it on the table Robert Delorme, [email protected] for the near future. Please, anyone who is willing and able to help organize the group tour at Navy owned sites in San Diego, contact June 2-5, 2011 the Board. The upcoming annual conferences will be Great Lakes Swinemunde/Poland in 2012 and Pensacola/Mobile in 2013. In addition, we also have Interfest e.V. Annual Conference an open slot for a 2012 special tour. Again, contact the Board if Florian Browers, [email protected] you wish to set one up. It can be foreign or domestic. Have a great summer, everyone. Enjoy the Civil War Sesquicen- Sept 2-5, 2011 tennial wherever you decide to visit. Isle of Wight, United Kingdom Fortress Study Group Annual Conference * * * * * Alan Fyson, [email protected] Preservation Committee Report Gordon Bliss September 23 - 25, 2011 Dresden, Germany All who attended this year’s conference had an opportunity to see Deutsche Geseilschaft fur Festtung Annual Meeting the results of one of our preservation projects. The unique double Andreas Kupka, [email protected] spiral staircase at the Fort Adams Advanced Redoubt was in danger of collapse and has now been stabilized. In addition, two of the Oct 2011 granite steps that had partially fallen out have been straightened. Toul, France This work has also made it much safer and easier to get on the top International Fortification Forum Fair - 19th Annual of the redoubt and vegetation clearance has begun up there. The CDSG Newsletter, May 2011 Page 2 Oct 1 & 8, 2011 May 2012 Breda - Antwerp, Netherlands & Belgium Lexington, KY USA Menno von Coehorn Meeting & Tour Council on Americ'a Military Past Annual Conference Fritz van Horn, [email protected] Martin Gordon, [email protected] Oct 2-9, 2011 Sept 2012 Baltic Fort Tour Route Northern Poland Koblenz Private Fortress/Bunker Tour Deutsche Geseilschaft fur Festtungsf Annual Meeting Hans-Rudolf Neumann, [email protected] Andreas Kupka, [email protected] Oct 29, 2011 Sept 2012 Karlovac, Croatia S.W. England, UK Internatinal Fortress Council Annual Meeting Fortress Study Group Annual Conference Luc Fellay, [email protected] [email protected] Nov 5, 2011 Feb 2013 Grebbelinie, Netherlands Great Fortress Tour to India/Rajasthan Menno von Coehorn Tour Private Fortress/Bunker Tour Fritz van Horn, [email protected] Hans-Rudolf Neumann, [email protected] Nov 5, 2011 May 2013 Prague, Czech Republic Defenses of Southern Italy Czech Association for Military History Annual Meeting Private Tour Vladimir Kupka, [email protected] Christian Casartelli, [email protected] Feb 15 - 25, 2012 May 2013 Coastal Defenses of Chile Council on America's Military Past Annual Conference Private Tour Martin Gordon, [email protected] Christian Casartelli, [email protected] Sept 2013 April 2012 Kustrin Great Fortress Tour Romania Deutsche Geseilschaft fur Festtungsf Annual Meeting Private Fortress/Bunker Tour Andreas Kupka, [email protected] Hans-Rudolf Neumann, [email protected] Sept 2013 May 2012 Fortress Study Group Annual Conference The Netherlands [email protected] Fortress Study Group Overseas Tour [email protected] At Fort Andrews in Boston Harbor, the long discussed demoli- sound, it will need cosmetic concrete repairs and the cost estimate tion of some of the buildings there has begun and should be in obtained is $120,000. Efforts are underway to look for possible progress as you read this. This is being done to about half of the sources of funding for this. remaining buildings and in return, the other buildings will be In Hawaii, the state is looking to put up interpretive signage, stabilized with 4 being rehabilitated (including the chapel and to include information on the Coast Defense elements there, at guardhouse). This had been under study for some time and after the trailhead for Makapu’u Head. There are 3 fire control sta- a compromise with the main local environmental/preservation tions there along with 4 machine gun pillboxes. This is a good group, 3 buildings that were originally on the demolition list will and relatively inexpensive way to educate people on the meaning be saved. If I am able to get out there and see things for myself, and history behind what otherwise are viewed by many people I will report on it here later this year. only as “mystery bunkers”. My thanks to John Bennett for this The Friends of Pulpit Rock Tower have been progressing in their information and for his efforts in providing information to the efforts as the Town of Rye (NH) has voted to accept the tower State of Hawaii. as town property and to set up a heritage commission. However, If you have a Preservation issue, or for further information before the tower will be accepted, $130,000 needs to be raised as on any of the items I’ve mentioned, contact the Preservation an evaluation determined that although the tower is structurally Committee Chair, Gordon Bliss, at [email protected] . The CDSG Newsletter, May 2011 Page 3 * * * * * * * * * * Reprint Edition of Watertown Arsenal Golden Gate NRA to get 16" rifle History Follows History of US Artillery John Martini Development General Superintendent Frank Dean of the Golden Gate April, 2011 -- VIA APPIA PRESS has announced the release National Recreation Area informed me today that the Defense of A History of Watertown Arsenal 1816-1967, a reprint edition Logistic Agency has set aside one of the 16-inch guns barrels at of the classic US Army history, with bonus material, edited by Hawthorne, NV, for the NPS. This is one of the Mark VII 16/50 Alan R. Earls. guns that were just put up for scrap. For some 150 years, until 1968, Watertown Arsenal, in Wa- When informed of the guns’ pending destruction, Superinten- tertown, MA, served as a vital element in the system of govern- dent Dean personally interceded and convinced DLA to earmark ment and private facilities that developed and manufactured one of the barrels for the National Park Service. The park’s intent the weapons used by the United State Army, in particular its is to move the gun tube to Fort Cronkhite and, eventually, install coastal artillery. Although its sudden demise in the 1960s was a it in Battery Townsley. shock to the community, it wasn’t until 1995 that the last army I was cc’d on many of the emails that went back and forth be- installation on the site finally closed. By then, most of the arsenal tween Frank Dean and DLA, and his commitment to preserving grounds had long since been converted to shopping facilities and the Coast Artillery legacy of GGNRA is impressive. It’s nice offices. The remaining 48 acres were converted for a time to the to have friends in high places who care about saving America’s United States Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center vanishing resources. (AMMRC), later called the United States Army Materials Tech- This is a huge coup for the park, and an even bigger challenge. nology Laboratory (MTL). Based on our research, it is theoretically possible to move the gun It was during this “second incarnation” that the History of the from Hawthorne to Fort Cronkhite via a combination of rail and Watertown Arsenal 1816-1967 was researched, written and pub- truck transport, but the logistics of moving and reinstalling the lished by the Government Printing Office.
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