Searchlights #1 and #2
Narrow Cape, HD Kodiak
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Searchlights #1 and #2 were installed at the southern most Coast Artillery site on Kodiak Island: Narrow Cape, some 25 miles south of the city of Kodiak. Each searchlight was provided with a combined shelter and power plant of concrete construction. The searchlights would be moved onto the concrete platforms in front of the shelters when in use.

Each searchlight was also provided with a Distant Electric Control, or DEC, station form which the light would be directed. The #2 DEC is no longer in evidence, probably having fallen into the sea.


Searchlight #1


Looking northeast at the shelter (left) and DEC station (right).
August 2005
Looking northwest at the shelter.
August 2005
Looking southeast in the shelter.
August 2005
Looking southwest in the shelter.
August 2005
The front of the DEC station.
August 2005
looking south at the stairway to the DEC.
August 2005
The interior of the DEC is flooded.
August 2005
Looking into the DEC from the stairway.
August 2005
Detail of metal mesh exposed by the DECs crumbling concrete.
August 2005
Looking northwest at the DEC, searchlight shelter to the rear.
August 2005


Searchlight #2


Looking east at the shelter. The DEC was located about 50 feet in front of it.
August 2005
The shelter, looking northwest.
August 2005
Inside the shelter, looking northeast.
August 2005
Looking southwest in the shelter.
August 2005
Looking out of the shelter, Ugak Island is visible to the south.
August 2005
Detail of a metal plate left from the shelter doors.
August 2005






Documents
Form 4, Searchlight #1May 1, 1944
Plan, Searchlight #1September 1, 1945
Form 4, Searchlight #2May 1, 1944
Plan, Searchlight #2September 1, 1945
Detail map of area, sheet 1.September 1944
Detail map of area, sheet 2.September 1944
Area of Illumination map. 



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