Unidentified foundation | Possibly FORACS No. 4
Unidentified foundation between Race Point and the Back Shore. [2022, Dunlap]
The eight-foot-square foundation is visible on Google Maps.
[2022, Dunlap]
Text last updated on 26 November 2023 | Tilted crazily on a sand bluff between Race Point and the Back Shore, an eight-foot-square cinder-block foundation seems to sledding down to the sea. (Or at least it did when I saw it last in 2022.) It is 1,160 feet west-northwest of the C-Scape dune shack. Could this be the remnant of Fleet Operational Readiness Accuracy Check Site No. 4? Constructed in 1964-1965, the FORACS installation at Race Point was “considered vital to the Navy’s anti-submarine warfare training program,” the Advocate said on 19 August 1965. “The installation will consist of a small mobile shore station connected with underwater cables extending 1.8 miles seaward …. It will measure the accuracy of Navy ships’ sonar equipment … Each of the underwater cables will have a sound transmitter and receiver at its termination. If tests show the site to be practical, a small station will be constructed near Race Point Coast Guard Station and made permanent.” The site was in use at least until 1972, when the U.S.S. Waldron, a destroyer, underwent testing.
Please note that the FORACS remnants may have been discussed under CCNS | Race Point.
¶ Published on 26 November 2023.