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Category: Architecture Sub Category: Religious |
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One of two 12" gun emplacements that formed Battery Stevenson at Fort Warren, Georges Island. The battery, circa 1899, replaced a row of traditional smoothbore cannon that had previously occuped that part of the rampart. The 12" disappearing guns (so named for their ability to recoil below the edge of the parapet -- and therefore out of the enemy's site) were melted for scrap long ago. In their day, each gun could throw a 1,000 pound shell nine miles. I believe they were last fired, in a practice run, during WWII. |
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