Ben Salter

Ben Salter club

Posted: 27 Apr 2010


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Gun emplacement

Gun emplacement
One of seven 7-inch Rifled Muzzle-Loading Cannons, which were built at Woolwich was mounted here in 1877, and each weighed 7 tons and had a 30lb charge of gunpowder able to fire a 112lb Palliser shot at 1,560 feet per second. This could pierce 8 inches of armour at 1,000 yards.

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