List of disappearing gun installations
This is a list of disappearing gun installations:
- Australia
- Ben Buckler Gun Battery, Bondi, New South Wales
- Flagstaff Hill Fort, Wollongong, New South Wales
- Fort Queenscliff, Port Phillip, Victoria, with a recovered gun from South Channel Fort
- Fort Nepean, Port Phillip, Victoria
- Fort Scratchley, Newcastle, New South Wales
- Henry Head Battery, Sydney, New South Wales
- Steel Point Battery, Vaucluse, Sydney, New South Wales
- Signal Hill Battery, Watsons Bay, Sydney, New South Wales
- South Channel Fort, Port Phillip, Victoria
Armstrong BL 6-inch Mk V disappearing gun at Taiaroa Head, New Zealand
- Bermuda
- Scaur Hill Fort, 64 pounder Rifled Muzzle Loaders on Moncrieff disappearing mounts
- Canada
- Cape Spear, Newfoundland 10" Buffington-Crozier-mounted guns installed in WWII; the tubes remain, but the mounts were scrapped.
- Fort Rodd Hill, British Columbia
- New Zealand (Armstrong Disappearing Guns)
- Fort Ballance, (Miramar, Wellington), one barrel of a BL 8-inch gun recovered[1]
- Fort Jervois (Lyttelton), one mostly intact BL 6-inch Mk V and one working-order BL 8-inch gun
- North Head (North Shore, Auckland), one remaining gun barrel with mostly intact carriage
- Taiaroa Head (Dunedin) one restored BL 6-inch Mk V
- Philippines
- Fort Mills, Corregidor Island, Manila Bay, Luzon[2]
- Fort Frank and Fort Hughes, Carabao and Caballo Islands, Manila Bay, Luzon [3]
- Fort Wint, Grande Island, Subic Bay, Luzon
- South Africa
- 9.2 inch disappearing gun in Fort Wynyard, Cape Town. Visible in Google Earth at coordinates 33° 54.136'S 18° 24.807'E.
- Thailand
- Phraya Chulachomklao Fort, Bangkok, seven Armstrong BL 6 inch guns on hydropneumatic disappearing carriages, all in working condition[4]
- United Kingdom
- Flat Holm, Bristol Channel, Wales
- Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth, England
- Crownhill Fort, Plymouth, England
- Pendennis Castle, Falmouth
- United States
- See Harbor Defense Command for a list of US forts with disappearing guns
- Battery Chamberlin, Presidio of San Francisco. One of the few Buffington-Crozier disappearing carriages still operating.
- Batteries Mendell and Alexander at Fort Barry defended San Francisco Bay[5]
- Battery Potter, Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, New Jersey. This is only remaining steam hydraulic (gun lift) battery.
- Fort Casey, Washington Home of two Buffington-Crozier mounted guns moved from Fort Wint (Subic Bay, Philippines.)
- Fort Stevens, Oregon, the only military installation in the continental United States to receive hostile fire during World War II
- Battery Cooper at Fort Pickens near Pensacola, Florida contains one 6-inch M1905 gun on a disappearing carriage.
References
- ↑ "Rare gun barrel surfaces in Wellington". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ↑ American Seacoast Artillery in the Philippines (12-inch, 10-inch and 6-inch) (from the Coast Defense Study Group website. Accessed 2015-01-26.)
- ↑ American Seacoast Artillery in the Philippines (14-inch and 12-inch) (from the Coast Defense Study Group website. Accessed 2015-01-26.)
- ↑ D. Quarmby, Casemate (Fortress Study Group), 84, 2009, pp17-18
- ↑ Chappell, Gordon. "Fort Barry". Historic California Posts. California State Military Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
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