Batteries Lytle, New Lytle

Battery Lytle (1905-1942)
This battery was armed with two 3-inch RF pedestal-mount guns.

Close-up of gun platform #2 of Battery Lytle.

The sea-wall of Battery Lytle.

The Oil Storage House (1903) adjacent to Battery Hunter.
There was once a navigation light at the end of the breakwater.
Note the wall to the right, which is part of the original 1874 battery.

The #1 gun block of New Battery Lytle (1943-46).
This was later used for a 3-inch Salute Gun, placed here after the USS Thresher accident in 1963.
This block fell into the rocks during a 1978 storm, while the gun was still attached.

The #2 gun block in the brush.

The central traverse steps of New Battery Lytle, buried in the soil.

A WWII mine cable terminal hut behind New Battery Lytle.
It connected the mine detonation cables from Fort Constitution
to the second line of harbor mines.

The remains of the 1898 Army Engineers' wharf.

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