Pics of PS31 19th Centrury Barbette Gun Position

[lentulus]

or a description.  Would it make a plausible position for your 6" gun? Does it look roughly like this (gun and tourists not included, shown for scale only)

http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/york/index.aspx

[Leon]

It's not far off that, and comes with a gun on a circular swivel mounting.

[lentulus]

It's not far off that, and comes with a gun on a circular swivel mounting.

With a gun?  Interesting, what kind?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The one in the pic looks like a 32pdr RML, which makes it 1860 ish.

IanS

[Leon]

It's a type of fortress gun, Dave says it's a mid-late 19th C. piece.

[lentulus]

Now that suggests that I could build it to swap in the 19th century fortress piece when I want an 1870s game (with the French naval crew perhaps) or the boer-war 6" for an early 20th century upgrade (my Romanian marines).

That sort of thing was certainly a commonplace with coastal batteries here in WWI and WWII.  Not going to stand up to a battleship, but fine for dealing with subs and small surface raiders.

Neat!

ianrs, York Redoubt is an absolute festival of naval artillery history - sort of left lying around, so well made they were never worth dragging off for salvage.  The ones in place are some of the smaller pieces, actually.  Its the far edge of no-where so the fortifications sort of piled up over the wars and panics with no need to re-use the space.

The position the picture is actually a "stabilization" from the '70s.  The positions actually had full underground ready areas, shell hoists and the lot.  Far more interesting; why they worried about losing a few tourists every year enough to close them up is beyond me.  

It's also a short drive from my house - I used to walk there when I was a young fellow.  Lovely in August; must have been a cursed place to be stationed in February.