100 TON M. L. Coast Artillery GUN ORIGINAL 1898 lithograph, framed. Mint!

Description: ORIGINAL HISTORICAL CIVIL WAR ERA WEAPONS ENGINEERING RENDERINGS 100 TON M. L. (Muzzle Loading) GUN COAST ARTILLERY WEAPONS ANTIQUE GRAPHIC ART CROSS-SECTION PLATES of Sea Coast Guns and Carriages Original Plate V, Figures 1 and 2 from GUNNERY, VOL. XI Chromolithograph, printed 1898, one single plate. The Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th EditionPublished by Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, London MEASURES 10.5 x 15 INCHES 9 x 11.75 INCHES (visible beneath the framed mat) MINT CONDITIONThe top image (Fig. 2) is drawn to Scale 1/200 and labeled: 100 TON M.L. GUN en BARBETTEUNDER COVER LOADING ELSWICK SYSTEM Both Fig. 1 and 2 are rendered in three colors on the black printed image as follows: Blue for "Wrought iron"Natural tint for "Cast iron"Yellow for "Bronze"Brown for "Wood" The bottom image (Fig. 1) is drawn to Scale 1/2 inch =1 foot and is labeled: CARRIAGE. IRON. WROUGHT GARRISON. RIFLED M.L. MONCRIEFFWITH PLATFORM 7 INCH 7 TONS MARK II Professionally matted and framed! ***** In addition to their use in our seacoast fortifications, these large post-Civil-War-era Coast Artillery guns...and the largest ever made, the 'Armstrong' 100-Ton Guns guns were also emplaced in Malta on Gibraltar in 1883! The 100-Ton Gun fired a 1-ton projectile, capable of piercing any ironclad vessel in the world at a range of 8 miles! See below: from the "HM Government of Gibraltar, Heritage & Antiquities Act Listings / 3. Fortifications" 100-Ton Gun to Include the Two Loading Rammer Chambers The 100-ton gun (also known as the Armstrong 100-ton gun) was a 17.72 inches (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, owned by William Armstrong. The 15 guns Armstrong made, were used to arm two Italian battleships (the Duilio and her sister-ship Dandolo) and, to counter these, British fortifications at Malta and Gibraltar. Following Colonel Jervois’ recommendation in 1868 for a heavy RML battery for this area two heavy 17.72-inch 100-ton RML guns on a barbette Mark I mounting were commissioned – one for the Napier of Magdala Battery covering the approaches of Gibraltar at Rosia and one at Victoria Battery on the Red Sands which dominated most of the bay. The total cost of works was of £35,707. The guns were delivered to Gibraltar aboard the WD vessel SS Stanley. The first gun arrived on the 3rd December 1882 and landed on the quay next to New Mole Battery on the 10th December. It was hoisted to the top of that battery using a specially built traveller apparatus between the 4th and 8th June and from there transported by means of a special sleigh to Napier Battery, a distance of 400 yards, which took working 21 days – starting on the 14th June and completed on the 11th July. The gun was finally mounted on its carriage on the 23rd July 1883. These new artillery pieces were enormous weapons for their time. They were muzzle-loading guns, with a rifled tube and rigid mount. Each gun required a crew of 35 men, including 18 men to handle the ammunition. The gun crews, however, could only fire a projectile once every six minutes. Information necessary to aim the gun was conveyed to a telephonist by range-finders situated higher up the Rock. Since the telephone had only recently been invented in 1876, this post of telephonist must have been one of the first in the British army. Nevertheless, commands within the battery itself were still conveyed by speaking tubes and trumpet calls.The guns at Napier of Magdala Battery in Gibraltar and at Fort Rinella in Malta have been restored and the respective batteries converted into a historical interpretation centre. The centre at Gibraltar includes access to the perfectly preserved loading rammer chambers beneath the 100-ton gun. A recent survey (2016) all of the surviving original hydraulic machinery at Napier of Magdala Battery by volunteers of the FWA (Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna) in Malta ascertained the following: The original lift consisted of an iron frame structure which supported a wooden base at the centre of which was fitted a turntable and notch shaped ‘stool’. The latter served for locking the ammunition trolley into place after it was loaded on the turntable and swerved into position lined up for loading. The 100-ton gun ammunition trolleys consisted of a heavy wooden block shaped as a horizontal open ended trough fitted with four-gun metal wheels which enabled it to ride on the trolley rails set into the floor of the ammunition chambers. This trolley was capable of taking both a shell and a cartridge at each stage of loading. The loading would only take place after that the ammunition trolley had risen to the gun floor level and lined up with a loading port positioned in the heavy armoured cupolas which protected the lift shafts. The gun would be traversed and lined with the port. In the process, the gun barrel with dislodge with own weight a heavy cast iron port stopper or cover to expose the port hole. The stopper served to protect the interior of the cupolas and lift shafts from the entry of sparks or any flame when the gun fired or during an engagement. With the gun and trolley perfectly line din position a 35-foot rammer would be activated to push the shell and cartridge in reverse into the barrel of the gun making it ready to be trained on target and fired.

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Location: Little Rock, Arkansas

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