Nice to see your pics, I did the Normandy beaches in 2019 during the 75th anniversary commemorations, we have similar pictures but mine are a damn sight more crowded!
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Normandy- St Mere Eglise 2016.
This is one of a series of coastal gun installations around New Zealand. This is the Taiaroa Battery, fitted with an Armstrong disappearing gun, one of the only disappearing guns that can still function - obviously not in their intended role! Back in the late 1800s there was a scare that the Russians would invade New Zealand following the visit of a Russian cruiser to NZ waters, so with assistance from the British a massive coastal defence building programme was undertaken around the busiest ports across the country. Taiaroa Head is located at the entrance to the channel into Port Chalmers and the city of Dunedin and in 1885 the first guns were placed on site. There were a total of six batteries on site, of which only one survives intact, the so-called Light House Battery. The peninsula is a protected wildlife reserve; therefore access is under strictly controlled conditions, but the battery is open to access through a pre-booked tour.
These are views of what was known as the Channel Battery, two 64 pdr guns were stationed here, but the ramparts and underground channels were largely demolished in the intervening years. An underground entrance and gun pit remains.
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The second gun pit, with underground tunnel having collapsed, note the ventilation mushroom in yellow.
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This is the observation point of the Saddle Battery, which had a 7-in muzzle loading gun.
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The OP for the Light House Battery.
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The eye piece for gauging distance to the target.
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Comms for relaying instruction to the gun crews.
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Although built in the late 1800s, this building still serves an important, albeit more prosaic function; bird watching. Taiaroa Head is the only mainland habitat of the Southern Royal albatross in the world where the species can be closely observed, hence the restrictions to accessing the site. How closely? A Royal albatross chick just metres from the OP.
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So, what's a disappearing gun? Self-explanatory, really...
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The Light House Battery's functioning disappearing gun. It's a 6-inch Armstrong Rifled Breech Loading (RBL) gun manufactured in 1886. Note the range clock.
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The gun is mounted in a pit below ground level on a turntable that is rotated manually.
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Shell types.
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Entrance to the magazine a floor lower than the gun. The opening is where the shells are hoisted up to the gun pit.
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