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Battery Hearn
Battery Hearn is located Southwest of Battery Way, and is one of the largest guns on Corregidor Island. It is a 12 inch coastal defense gun mounted on a rotating barbette carriage. It could fire a 1,000 lb shell 17 miles at a maximum rate of one round every 55 seconds. The gun was typically manned by a crew of 34 men (two of which would be stationed in the well beneath the carriage when in action).
Completed in 1921 at a cost of $148,105 Hearn and her sister battery 'Smith' were the last major caliber seacoast artillery peices placed on Corregidor Island before the Washington Disarmament Treaty was put into effect in 1922. Hearn and Smith were west range guns facing the China Sea and did not see much action during the hostilities of WWII.
Battery Hearn
Battery Hearn is located Southwest of Battery Way, and is one of the largest guns on Corregidor Island. It is a 12 inch coastal defense gun mounted on a rotating barbette carriage. It could fire a 1,000 lb shell 17 miles at a maximum rate of one round every 55 seconds. The gun was typically manned by a crew of 34 men (two of which would be stationed in the well beneath the carriage when in action).
Completed in 1921 at a cost of $148,105 Hearn and her sister battery 'Smith' were the last major caliber seacoast artillery peices placed on Corregidor Island before the Washington Disarmament Treaty was put into effect in 1922. Hearn and Smith were west range guns facing the China Sea and did not see much action during the hostilities of WWII.