Ragged Neck Searchlight and Radar Station - Location 139 A
photo by Don MacKenzie, courtesy of Gerald Butler
A portable steel-girder tower set up for a 60-inch searchlight at Ragged Neck Point.Located here on a 4.0 acre site (NH state land leased by the War Dept.) were searchlight positions #4 and #5, and a mobile SCR-268 radar station. There were no permanent structures built here. This piece of land is now known as Rye Harbor State Park.
(NOTE:: The stone breakwater at Rye Harbor was built in 1939 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)
Located at Ragged Neck Point, Rye Harbor, NH.
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