Reinstalling a 10 inch RML at Fort Glanville, Australia

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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
  • Reinstalling a 10 inch RML at Fort Glanville, Australia
    The Palmerston Forts Society inherited a number of videos from David Moore. They were in various formats and we have digitised them to get them into our archives. This is an extract from one of them.
    Here we see a 10 inch 20 ton RML being reinstalled at Fort Glanville in Semaphore Park, a suburb of Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia. Completed in 1882, partly in response to the second Russian expansion scare, the fort is very much of the pattern of the forts built in Britain at the time with some familiar names involved in its conception and design.
    Wikipedia tells us that the 10 inch RML platforms and traverses were scrapped in 1937 but the gun barrels were uneconomic to cut up and were left in place. This gun was reinstalled on a reproduction carriage in 1997 using money raised by the Fort Glanville Historical Association Volunteers.

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