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34 relations: Armstrong Gun, Australia, Australian Army Artillery Museum, Ben Buckler Gun Battery, BL 6 inch gun Mk II – VI, BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun, BL 9.2 inch gun Mk I–VII, Brooklyn, Victoria, Disappearing gun, Fort Pearce, Fort Perch Rock, Fort Queenscliff, Gibraltar, Jervois-Scratchley reports, London, Muzzle-loading rifle, Point Nepean, Pope's Eye, Port Phillip, Port Wakefield, South Australia, Portsea, Victoria, QF 14 pounder Maxim-Nordenfelt naval gun, QF 4.7-inch Gun Mk I–IV, Royal Commission, Signal Hill Battery, South Channel Fort, SS Pfalz (1913), Steel Point Battery, Swan Island (Victoria), Sydney, Victoria (Australia), William Jervois, World War I, World War II.
Armstrong Gun
An Armstrong Gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England beginning in 1855 by the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Army Artillery Museum
The Australian Army Artillery Museum was an artillery museum located in North Fort, on the northern head of the entrance to Sydney Harbour, in Sydney, Australia.
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Ben Buckler Gun Battery
The Ben Buckler Gun Battery is an heritage-listed fortified former gun emplacement of the late-Victorian period located in the locality of Ben Buckler, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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BL 6 inch gun Mk II – VI
The BL 6 inch guns Marks II, III, IV and VIMark II.
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BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun
The BL 6 inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy traveling carriage in 1915 for British Army service to become one of the main heavy field guns in the First World War, and also served as one of the main coast defence guns throughout the British Empire until the 1950s.
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BL 9.2 inch gun Mk I–VII
The BL 9.2 inch guns Mk I – Mk VIIi.e. Marks 1 to 7.
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Brooklyn, Victoria
Brooklyn is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Brimbank and Hobsons Bay local government areas.
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Disappearing gun
A disappearing gun, a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage, is an obsolete type of artillery which enabled a gun to hide from direct fire and observation.
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Fort Pearce
Fort Pearce is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia.
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Fort Perch Rock
Fort Perch Rock is a former defence installation situated at the mouth of Liverpool Bay in New Brighton.
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Fort Queenscliff
Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Jervois-Scratchley reports
The Jervois-Scratchley reports of 1877 concerned the defences of the Australian colonies, and influenced defence policy into the twentieth century.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Muzzle-loading rifle
A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm or artillery piece that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore.
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Point Nepean
Point Nepean marks the southern point of The Rip (the entrance to Port Phillip) and the most westerly point of the Mornington Peninsula, in Victoria, Australia.
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Pope's Eye
Pope's Eye is the uncompleted foundation for an island fort intended to defend the entrance to Port Phillip in the state of Victoria, Australia.
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Port Phillip
Port Phillip (also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or (locally) just The Bay), is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia; it is the location of Melbourne.
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Port Wakefield, South Australia
Port Wakefield (formerly Port Henry) was the first government town to be established north of the capital, Adelaide, in South Australia.
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Portsea, Victoria
Portsea is a town in the outer south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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QF 14 pounder Maxim-Nordenfelt naval gun
The QF 14 pounder was a 3-inch medium-velocity naval gun used to equip warships for defence against torpedo boats.
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QF 4.7-inch Gun Mk I–IV
The QF 4.7 inch Gun Mks I, II, III, and IVMk I.
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Royal Commission
A Royal Commission is a major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a defined issue in some monarchies.
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Signal Hill Battery
The Signal Hill Battery was constructed in 1892-3 at Watsons Bay and is adjacent to the Signal Hill Lighthouse on Old South Head Road.
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South Channel Fort
South Channel Fort, also known as South Channel Island, is a 0.7 ha artificial island in southern Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east of the town of Sorrento.
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SS Pfalz (1913)
The Pfalz was a 6,557 ton cargo steamer operated by German shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd.
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Steel Point Battery
The Shark Point Battery is a small fort, located on the shores of Sydney Harbour in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia.
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Swan Island (Victoria)
Swan Island is a 1.4 km2 sand barrier island which, with Duck Island and the Edwards Point spit, separate Swan Bay from Port Phillip in Victoria, Australia.
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Sydney
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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William Jervois
Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois (10 September 1821 – 17 August 1897) was a British military engineer and diplomat.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Nepean
