Battery Elias Smur

Battery Name: Elias Smur
Harbor: Columbia River
Location: Fort Stevens

Eponym: 3rd Lt. Eias P. Smur, died Oct 19, 1814 of wounds received at the Battel of Lyon's Creek, Upper Canada, GO 194, Dec. 27, 1904.

Current status: intact, clean, maintained by the park

Information from RCW Form 1 (date): June 30, 1921
Battery commenced: Aug. 1899
Battery completed: Apr. 1900
Date of transfer: June 28, 1900
Material of construction: concrete
Portland or Rosendale cement: Portland
Cost to date of transfer: $11,954.57
Type of data transmission: none
Trunnion elevation in battery: 25.53'
Datum plane: MLLW
Sources of electric current: Central or Reserve Power Plant
Max. kw. Required for lights: 0.8 kW
Max. kw. Required for motors: none

RCW Form 5 (date): none

Armament: 2 gun emplacements

# 1: Cal., 3": Length, 154.5": Model, 1898: Serial No., 30: Manufacturer, Driggs-Seabury: Mounted, CAC
# 1: Carriage Type, Barb LF (MP): Model, 1898MI: Serial No., 30: Manufacturer, Driggs-Seabury: Motor, none
# 1: Hoist Type, none

# 2: Cal., 3": Length, 154.5": Model, 1898: Serial No., 35: Manufacturer, Driggs-Seabury: Mounted, CAC
# 2: Carriage Type, Barb LF (MP): Model, 1898MI: Serial No., 35: Manufacturer, Driggs-Seabury: Motor, none
# 2: Hoist Type, none

Historical Notes and Comments: guns removed, carriages sold and removed by 1921, used as fuze magazine during WWII.

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