The two 6-inch guns of Goods Battery, located on Tucker Point at the west end of Goods Island (Palilug) in the Torres Strait, were operational between 1941 and 1946, covering the channels to the north of the island, the western and eastern approaches to Thursday Island, and the RAAF Advanced Operational Base (AOB) on Horn Island to the southeast.

Surviving reinforced concrete elements of the battery include two 6-inch gun emplacements set in a line, with a two-room magazine at the rear of each. The eastern gun emplacement is positioned at a higher level, and overlooking both gun emplacements from the east is a three level Battery Observation Post (BOP) and fire director station.

A semi-underground operations room is excavated into the hillside just southeast of the BOP. Two rooms are located within an encircling outer blast wall. About 70 metres southeast of the BOP is the engineers’ workshop, a concrete building partly excavated into the hillside which contains three workrooms. About 20 metres southeast of the workshop is a 75,000 gallon (340,957 litres) five-metre deep water reservoir.

Four searchlight stations, with accompanying generator rooms, are located to the north and south of the gun emplacements, and a two level signal station is located alongside the Goods Island lighthouse (1886), to the east of the gun battery. A small power house is located to the north of the signal station.

The battery’s camp site is located a kilometre south-east, near Quoin Point, and comprises about 20 concrete floor slabs which originally contained four rows of steel frame prefabricated Sidney Williams huts. In addition to dismantled hut frames, evidence remains of a kitchen stove, corrugated iron water tanks, garden rockeries and plantings, and the stone rubble wall of a fish trap.