- The name
barbette ultimately comes from fortification: it
originally meant a
raised platform or mound, as in the
French phrase en barbette,
which refers...
- The
barbette ship was a type of
ironclad warship that was
built by
several navies between the 1860s and 1890s. The
defining characteristic was the use...
- ring
followed the
Krupp design. The guns
appear to have been
mounted en barbette,
rather than on a
disappearing carriage. A US
Naval Intelligence report...
- ships. The
ironclad Richelieu had four
Canon de 24 C modèle 1870
mounted en barbette and one
mounted as a
chase gun. This was
alongside four
heavier 27 c...
- some of
which were
mounted in
protective casemates; the rest were in
en barbette mountings,
firing over the parapets. Two
smaller fortresses were located...
-
mound or
raised platform of earth,
whereon the
artillery was
placed en barbette, so as to fire over the
outer wall, and
command a
range on
every side...
- five RBL 7-inch
Armstrong guns and four 68-pounder guns, all
mounted en barbette (i.e. in an open mounting,
firing over a parapet). The
landward side...
- all
partly revetted with brick; the
Octava or
Madame Lynch (three guns
en barbette); the
Coimbra (eight guns); and the Tacuarà (three guns). Next, the invading...
- of Fort Jackson, Louisiana. It was
designed for
heavy cannon mounted en barbette (i.e. in the open
firing over the parapet), but
howitzers were mounted...
-
little strength,
mounting at the most
fourteen Guns of
small Calibre en barbette;
though others state the
number only at six.'
Taken from
letter from...
