List of disappearing gun installations

This is a list of disappearing gun installations. These are artillery installed behind fortification walls with mechanisms that lift the gun for firing and then retract it to protection. These were installed, especially in coastal defenses, from the 1860s until as late as 1923, and were in service as late as the beginning of World War II.

Guns in retractable turrets within the Maginot Line and the Atlantic Wall that are sometimes termed "disappearing guns",[1] are not included.

On land

Afloat

References

  1. Britannica's War on Land, including its page 62, for one source
  2. "Rare gun barrel surfaces in Wellington". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  3. American Seacoast Artillery in the Philippines (12-inch, 10-inch and 6-inch) (from the Coast Defense Study Group website. Accessed 2015-01-26.)
  4. American Seacoast Artillery in the Philippines (14-inch and 12-inch) (from the Coast Defense Study Group website. Accessed 2015-01-26.)
  5. D. Quarmby, Casemate (Fortress Study Group), 84, 2009, pp17-18
  6. Chappell, Gordon. "Fort Barry". Historic California Posts. California State Military Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  7. Report. United States Army Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1901. p. 21.
  8. Congressional Edition. 4534. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1903. p. 1393.
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