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Photographed in 2019. 6-inch gun M1900 on pedestal mount M1900, generally similar to the 5-inch gun M1900 on pedestal mount M1903. The 5-inch gun M1897 (127 mm) and its variant the M1900 were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1897 and 1920.
By 1917, pedestal mounts for 6-inch guns (all of them M1900 weapons) were known to be superior to disappearing mounts, being able to more rapidly track targets with a faster rate of fire. Thus, most disappearing guns (except the M1897, shorter than the others) were dismounted for use as field guns, while most of the few pedestal guns dismounted ...
A US Army coast artillery 5-inch gun M1897 on a balanced pillar mount M1896. U.S. Endicott-era balanced pillar and masking parapet mounts were, in a sense, a hybrid of simple pedestal mounts and disappearing mounts: the guns were hidden from observation while out of action, but, once engaged, remained vulnerable to direct observation and direct ...
The pedestal is the foundation piece of the gun carriage. On the M1903 carriage the pivot yoke is mounted in the pedestal and rests upon a ring of ball bearings on the base of the pedestal. The entire weight of the gun and top part of the carriage rests upon this ring of ball bearings.
The Coast Artillery Corps deployed about 24 of these weapons on fixed pedestal mounts for land defense in the Panama Canal Zone in 1926, replacing the 4.7 inch howitzer M1913 in this role. [ 2 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] An additional 100 barrels were acquired by the Coast Artillery for use in sub-caliber training alongside (or mounted on) large guns, such ...
The Erie-class mounted four guns in single-pedestal mounts. [6] Five to eight rounds per minute could be fired from each of the 6-inch guns. Each gun weighed 5.24 short tons (4.75 t) and could be elevated from −10 degrees up to 20 degrees. The 105-pound Mark 28 Common shell fired at 2,800 ft/s (850 m/s). [6]
Location of Posey County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Posey County, Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Posey County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Posey County, Indiana is located in the southwestern corner of the state, wedged between the Wabash River and Illinois to the west and the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south. On October 11, 1878, Jim Good, Jeff Hopkins, Ed Warner, William Chambers, and Dan Harris, Sr. were lynched in Posey County, Indiana, near the town of Mount Vernon. [1]