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Barbettes are
several types of gun
emplacement in
terrestrial fortifications or on
naval ships. In recent[when?]
naval usage, a
barbette is a protective...
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protect from the
threat of
German dive bombers,
Battery Langdon was
casemated in 1943. The 12-inch
barbette guns that were in
place were kept, but 17 feet...
- (1914) 1871 1872 28 Oct 1874 1875 Dec. 1875 5 Sep 1914 Sep. 1914
floating battery off Çanakkale. 13 Dec 1914 sunk by
torpedo attack of
British submarine...
- use of
armored barbettes to
partially protect the ship's main
battery guns,
rather than
heavy gun
turrets or
inflexible box
batteries. A
large number...
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during the
American Civil War by John Ericsson. Open
barbettes were also used to
house their main
batteries on
rotating mounts. Both
designs allowed naval engineers...
- 12-inch (305 mm) M1895
barbettes Battery Alexander Mackenzie 2 12-inch (305 mm)
barbettes During WW1
supplemental s****
batteries were
added on or near...
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Padstow Coastal Gun
Battery was
built in the
summer of 1940 at the
northern end of the
Bodmin Stop Line to
defend against a
German invasion of Britain...
- on low-angle
barbette mountings. From 1919, 19 long-range two-gun
batteries were
built using the M1895 on an M1917 long-range
barbette carriage. Almost...
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could fire
directly ahead. The centre-
battery ships were soon
succeeded by
turreted warships. Box
battery Barbette ship
Sondhaus (1994), p. 44. Sondhaus...
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Battery Harker, Fort Mott on
disappearing carriages,
three guns from
Battery Quarles, Fort
Worden on
barbette carriages, and two guns from
Battery Revere...
