disappearinggun

8 photos tagged disappearinggun, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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1907

2012

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The last upload was January 2026.

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Ed Dempsey said:
Shape of concrete emplacement indicates this is probably part of Battery Crockett, a seaward-facing battery with two 12" guns, still standing, today, on Corregidor Island.

swanq said:
Fort Wadsworth, Richmond County, New York. On Staten Island.
B-59 said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wadsworth This photo was printed in The Sunday Oregonian, March 25, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 67 with the caption: "Big guns at Fort Wadsworth guard the entrance to the harbor of New York" oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1917-03-25/ed-1/se...
Ryan (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks to both of you for this information. We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.
LWyman said:
This is a curious scene as disappearing guns of this type were probably considered obsolete by 1917, and the wood platform at the breech would prevent it from working, as the gun would rock backward and down when fired. Compare to a similar battery being fired at nearby Fort Hamilton some years earlier (PPOC: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004001933/ and www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004001939/ )

aware health said:
Dictionary.com and my Webster's both list "defence" as "chiefly British" usage. I wonder where in the last century that changed, and why? Or was the Tribune putting on airs?