Fort Wint
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Fort Wint was part of the harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bays built by the Philippine Department of the United States Army between 1907 and 1920 in response to recommendations of the Taft Board p
Fort Wint
Splinter-damaged 6-inch (15-cm) United States M1905 disappearing gun at Battery Hall, Fort Wint.
Buffington-Crozier carriage of the gun shown above.
Identification engraving on the muzzle of the gun shown above.
Disappearing gun
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A disappearing gun, which is a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage, is an obsolete type of artillery which enabled a gun to be hidden from direct fire and observation. The overwhelming majority of
Fort Wint
…period coast artillery pieces mounted in five batteries. Battery Warwick contained the fort's most powerful weaponry, two 10-inch (254 mm) M1895 disappearing guns on Buffington-Crozier carriages. Batteries Hall and Woodruff each mounted two 6-inch (152 mm) M1905 guns, also on disappearing carriages. Batteries…
British 64 pounder rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun on a Moncrieff disappearing mount, at Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda
The BL 8 inch disappearing gun of the South Battery, at North Head in Devonport, New Zealand
A U.S. Coast Artillery battery with two guns on disappearing carriages
Annotated photograph of an M1901 Buffington–Crozier disappearing carriage for an M1900 12-inch gun