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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...
- (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.
Following the introduction...
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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...
- 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...
- with two guns each on long-range
barbette carriages;
these were
completed in 1921 and
named Battery Kingman and
Battery Mills. The rise of air
power meant...
- gun
Battery Kilpatrick 2 6-inch
disappearing guns
Battery Sedgwick Pratt 2 12-inch M1895
barbettes Battery Alexander Mackenzie 2 12-inch
barbettes During...
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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...
- guns, one on an
Elswick Ordnance Company barbette mounting, the
other on a
Royal Carriage Department barbette mounting. The gun
positions were
served by...
- from
Battery Harker, Fort Mott on
disappearing carriages,
three guns from
Battery Quarles, Fort
Worden on
barbette carriages, and two guns from
Battery Revere...
