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Post by armyjunk on Mar 14, 2010 0:45:55 GMT 8
Hello everyone, here is a off the beaten path site. This is Searchlight Number 11 located on the western end of Fort Hughes, Tony got us there a few years ago, very overgrown.
Location map
another of my wonderful drawings showing location of photograph NORTH IS AT THE BOTTOM OF PHOTO
1 Entrance from North side
2 looking south, tunnel towards Battery Gillespie on the left
5 base for Searchlight
6 view to the North
3 Tunnel going towards Battery Gillespie
4 you go though this unfinished tunnel to get to the finished tunnel
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8 Finished end of tunnel, odd to come though the unfinished tunnel to get here, looks as if it could have been open here at one time
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Post by okla on Mar 14, 2010 4:34:20 GMT 8
Hey Army....Thanks for posting. As I have often said to our buddy Fots, "the off the beaten path presentations are always the best", methinks. I especially enjoy the narrations that accompany the photos. Your technical input makes it all the more interesting. Postscript...What are those round, cylinder looking objects?
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Post by armyjunk on Mar 14, 2010 5:18:13 GMT 8
I would think powder cans, for the 14 inch guns on Hughes
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Post by okla on Mar 14, 2010 7:38:21 GMT 8
Hey Army....That's what I was thinking, but couldn't imagine live powder lying around all these years, but since Fort Hughes is still under military control and scavengers/scrappers aren't prowling those confines I would suppose relics are more likely to be undisturbed. Those things, in all likelyhood, have been inert for eons. Thanks for answering my query.
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Post by fots2 on Mar 14, 2010 9:00:48 GMT 8
Now that is my kind of place armyjunk, not all picked over and sanitized like much of Corregidor. I hope to get there one day.
Thanks for the tour.
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Post by batteryboy on Mar 14, 2010 10:02:51 GMT 8
Well we had a fun time going down the stairs that have long been gone thru the years and negotiating steep cliffs with only vines to help us. Nevertheless, we got there as as part of the crowning moment, I had to sit down the throne. That's me in the base of the 6-inch SL at No. 11. Amy and I, together with the other coasties had a great time at Hughes. Cheers,
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Post by oozlefinch on Jun 19, 2012 13:55:43 GMT 8
Having seen SL-11 twice, I still cannot figure out the rough tunnel. It had to have been dug after the start of hostilities, but the east end of the tunnel (left on ArmyJunk's map) turns south and meets what appears to be a concrete portal. As those of us who went down the many steps from Gillespie to the SL, I have no idea where this portal would be, or what it opened to. I haven't done any calculations, but it appears to me to be below the level of the lower level of Gillespie. ArmyJunk, BatteryBoy, or anyone else whose been there, what are your thoughts.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 20, 2018 16:42:26 GMT 8
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