File:Ward-BC-Station.jpg

Summary
This image, taken in 2009, looks west from outside the ammunition magazines of Battery Ward, Fort Strong, Long Island, Boston Harbor. This is the eastern extremity of the concrete works for the batteries of the fort. The loading platform for Battery Ward Gun #1 (the most easterly in the fort) is above the camera.

The tower is the Battery Commander's (BC) station for Battery Ward. The double-arched lower portion is level with the magazines of the adjoining Battery Hitchcock. The nest level up is roughly even with Batteryu Ward's loading platform. The top level (with the viewing slit) looks out over the two guns and the parapet of the fort. The one remaining steel armored door can be seen hanging open at the rear of the top tevel.

The heavy steel curved bracket in the upper right corner of the photo is the upper mounting bracket for a block and tackle shell hoist that was used to bring the 600-lb. shells from the magazine up to the guns before the motor-driven hoists were installed around 1905.