Cape Henlopen State Park

Today I went northward from my undisclosed location and visited Cape Henlopen State Park, near Lewes, Delaware.  The park includes the former Fort Miles, which is now a historical area including a museum.  The park also includes several former gun batteries remote from the main part of the fort.  This first photo is of Battery Herring, near a popular surfing and fishing place named Herring Point.

From a viewing area near Battery Herring, I could see the Atlantic Ocean and a rocky breakwater on the beach.

Here's once of the entrances to the Fort Miles Museum, but it was closed.  I don't know what the structure is on the left on top of the embankment.

Near the museum is the Fort Miles Artillery Park.  Its largest gun, shown here, was one of two 16-inch guns deployed at the fort.

The replica 16-inch projectile and the steel armor plate with a hole constitute a Proof Steel display.  The plate is 17.5 inches thick.  The hole was formed when a real 16-inch shell was fired into it.  Part of the 16-inch gun seen above is in the background.

Here's a somewhat smaller gun with the 16-inch gun again in the background, from yet another angle and partially obscured by trees.

Another short walk led me to a third large gun.

I was about to leave, but I spotted another set of guns at the far end of the museum's parking lot.  Two guns next to each other were located in front of what might have been a barracks, with more artillery pieces in the background on the left.

Here are the two guns seen above, perhaps in a view seen by someone in their line of fire.

On the other side of the road were three more stationary guns and a gun mounted on a carriage.  I think that the stationary guns shot projectiles that were 3 inches in diameter, while the mobile gun shot 155-milimeter-wide shells.

Here are the three stationary guns.

Having seen enough artillery for one day, I decided to leave the park.  On the way out, I made a brief stop at Fire Control Tower 7.

There are at least two similar towers, once purposed for observing artillery fire during World War II, along Delaware route 1 between the towns of Dewey Beach and Bethany Beach.  I don't know if any German U-boats ever took any shots in the area.