Searchlight Emplacement / Emplacement de projecteur

During the Second World War, 17 modern searchlights replaced the four original defence electric lights. The 60-inch searchlight mounted in this emplacement was one of two installed at Fort Rodd Hill in 1940, and two similar searchlights were positioned on the opposite shore. Together, all four lit up the harbor mouth with wide, dispersed beams of light, allowing quick-firing guns to sight on torpedo boats. All the searchlights were mounted in similar emplacements, and each had camouflage to prevent identification from sea or air. This one was disguised as a boathouse.

British Columbia · Canada