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Offline Double D

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Big mortar, what is it?
« on: April 26, 2009, 06:12:11 AM »
Here is Rod Dickson leaning in a mortar a Gosport Navel Magazine in UK



Anybody know anything about this mortar?  What  is it?
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Re: Big mortar, what is it?
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2009, 06:41:31 AM »
Looks like a 13 inch British Sea Service Mortar.
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Re: Big mortar, what is it?
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2009, 07:16:08 AM »
     Max, of course is correct, he answered a question correctly on our latest Historical Photo Contest directly related as to what they were.  Below is a photo of two of these guns being used at the siege of Sebastapol during the Crimean War in 1854.  This was one of eight contest photos.  The distance and the huge wooden mortar beds make the tubes look slightly smaller, but Double D's photo reveals exactly how huge they really were!

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