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Designation: 13in Heavy Mortar M1861
Model: 13in Seacoast Mortar M1861
Identification No: Fort Pitt 1051: USN


Designed by: US Army Ordnance Department
Built at: Fort Pitt Foundry
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
construction no: 1051
Year : 1862
Item Category: Artillery, Mortar

Memorial Information
Owner: US Naval History and Heritage Command


Comments: served on USS John Griffith, ex Dayton, OH




Current Status: Static Display
Access: By Appointment
Location: Smithgall Foundation for the Preservation of American Artillery
Drumore Township
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Reference Documents / websites:

The Big Guns, pg 262: C154, 22
Artilleryman Magazine, Vol 40 No 3

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Last update to record: 2023-12-22

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