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| Keywords: Btty-Whitman-As-Designed.jpg This is a plan of Battery Whitman dated 1897 from the U S Army Engineers It shows the original design of the battery with four mortar pits of four mortars each in a rectangular array that was dubbed an Abbot Quad after the engineer who first drafted this design in 1892 as a way of saturating an area with salvo fire from 16 coast defense mortars In fact this is one of eight early U S mortar batteries that were designed as Abbot Quads including two of these half quad designs This plan was obtained by Thomas Vaughan courtesy of Glen Williford and published as part of his Analysis of Seacoast Mortar Battery Design Types 1890-1925 Stoughton MA 27 February 2004 p 21 The plan is oriented toward the NNW at top The existing Btty Whitman Pit A is at lower left and Pit B is at top left 2010-08-28 Transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia by SreeBot Pgrig at en wikipedia other versions PD-USGov Original upload log page en wikipedia Btty-Whitman-As-Designed jpg Upload date User Bytes Dimensions Comment 2010-08-28 16 59 UTC Pgrig 137168 bytes 800×587 <small><nowiki>This is a plan of Battery Whitman dated 1897 from the U S Army Engineers It shows the original design of the battery with four mortar pits of four mortars each in a rectangular array that was dubbed an Abbot Quad after the engineer who first draft</nowiki></small> 12-inch coast defense mortar | ||||
