Battery Name: Jules Ord
Harbor: Columbia River
Location: Fort Columbia
Eponym: Lt. Jules G. Ord, killed in action San Juan Hill, Cuba July 3, 1898, GO 194, Dec. 27, 1904
Battery Ord 2008.
Battery Ord as completed
Third emplacement Battery Ord
entrance to Battery Ord's third emplacement 2008.
Current status: main emplacement partially closed to public,
Information from RCW Form 1 (date): June 30, 1921 superceded,
Sept. 30, 1926.
Battery commenced: Dec. 1896
Battery completed: Jul. 1898
Date of transfer: July 16, 1898
Material of construction: concrete
Portland or Rosendale cement: portland
Cost to date of transfer: $137,298.79
Type of data transmission: none
Trunnion elevation in battery: #1&2- 106.20', #3-146.13'
Datum plane: MLLW
Sources of electric current: central power plant
Max. kw. Required for lights: 4.1 kW
Max. kw. Required for motors: none. Not in use.
Armament: 3 gun emplacements
# 1: Cal., 8": Length,278.5" : Model, 1888MI: Serial
No., 20: Manufacturer, Watervliet: Mounted, ED
# 1: Carriage Type, Dis. LF: Model, 1896: Serial No., 1: Manufacturer,
P.M. Tool Co.: Motor, none
# 1: Hoist Type, Tay.R.: Delivery, back: Serial No., 131397: Maker,
Gen.E.Co.: H.P., 3.5: Volts, 110: RPM, 1060:
Type of control, rheostat: Date of Transfer, Mar. 1908: Remodeled
for Long Points, no.
# 2: Cal., 8": Length,278.5" : Model, 1888MI: Serial
No., 23: Manufacturer, Watervliet: Mounted, ED
# 2: Carriage Type, Dis. LF: Model, 1896: Serial No., 10: Manufacturer,
P.M. Tool Co.: Motor, none
# 2: Hoist Type, Tay.R.: Delivery, back: Serial No., 131565: Maker,
Gen.E.Co.: H.P., 3.5: Volts, 110: RPM, 1060:
Type of control, rheostat: Date of Transfer, Mar. 1908: Remodeled
for Long Points, no.
# 3: Cal., 8": Length,278.5" : Model, 1888MII: Serial
No., 44: Manufacturer, Watervliet: Mounted, CAC
# 3: Carriage Type, Dis. LF: Model, 1896: Serial No., 32: Manufacturer,
Lake E. Eng. Wks. Motor, none
# 3: Hoist Type, Tay.R.: Delivery, back: removed by 1920
Historical Notes and Comments: guns removed & shipped away, carriages sold and removed by 1920. Battery was rewired in 1910. No 3 emplacement magazine room and corridor remodeled and used for switchboard room.
