disappearinggun

Worth comparing with this photograph: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2477622073/in/s... Are they the same gun?

More information about the Sandy Hook proving ground: www.archaeology.org/0407/abstracts/jersey.html

Very interesting. Thanks rockcreek. A search on the LOC's website amongst the Bain collection for the keywords "Sandy Hook, gun, artillery" brings up quite a few examples of photographs taken there of various shore guns (along with many other examples of firearms) which have not yet made it to the flickr set.

Would have loved to seen this place in it's heyday.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage New Jersey, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Fort Wadsworth, Richmond County, New York. On Staten Island.

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...

Thanks to both of you for this information. We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.

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/ )

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.