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
Current status: main emplacement partially closed to public, fair condition. Third emplacement buried.
Information from RCW Form 1 (date): June 30, 1921 superceded,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.
M1888 8 inch gun on M1896 disappearing carriage
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.
entrance to Battery Ord's third emplacement
