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Fort Rosecrans San Diego


The Navy Takes Over
At the end of World War II the demise of the Harbor Defenses of San Diego came swiftly. In March 1947, Fort Rosecrans was placed in a caretaking status with a garrison of 101. The 49 year-old Fort became a sub-installation of Fort MacArthur at Los Angeles effective December 1, 1948. The Harbor Defenses of San Diego were formally discontinued on January 1, 1950.
The Department of the Army transferred Fort Rosecrans to the Department of the Navy in May 1957. The Army, however, did not leave the installation until March 1959 and the Navy occupied the Fort in June. The Fort's Regular Army detachment of one officer and four enlisted men turned over to the Navy the 557-acre post. There were no ceremonies.
Eighty acres of the post were transferred to the Department of the Interior for Cabrillo National Monument and 15 acres went to the Department of the Treasury for Lighthouses. The Navy had already acquired the balance of Fort Rosecrans' original 1,300 acres.
The Navy had first come to Point Loma in 1904 when the War Department transferred the north end of Fort Rosecrans to the Navy for a coaling station and, in 1906, a Naval radio station. Point Loma Naval Reservation today has a Submarine Base, Degaussing Station, Naval Supply Center, Fleet Combat Training and the Naval Ocean Systems Center. Most of the original batteries became work and storage facilities for the Navy operations after the guns had been removed. Many of the Fort's original barracks and officers' quarters are used by the Submarine Base as officers' quarters. Fort Emory at Imperial Beach was transferred to the Navy in 1947 as part of the Naval Radio Station, which had been established there in 1920. So, in a different way, the harbor defenses of San Diego continue to exist today.

long history::



They look like World War II era ships

Now called Naval Station Point Loma::


 
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