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The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 19th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket , operating under the same principles, but with a bore of up to one-inch (25.4 mm) calibre .
The four BL 18-inch railway howitzers that were deployed during the Second World War were all scrapped in the post-war period. [3]Only the gun from the fifth howitzer, named "barrel number one", survives, [4] it was used for artillery testing at MoD Shoeburyness in 1920 before being put into storage at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. [4]
The Ruck machine gun post (or Ruck pillbox) was designed by James Ruck and was made from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth. [78] [79] [80] The Ruck machine gun post was relatively widely used in Lincolnshire and along the east coast of England, [81] but is now extremely rare with just a handful of extant examples. [82]
A typical casemate held a 6-inch gun, and had a 4-to-6-inch (100 to 150 mm) front plate (forming part of the side of the ship), with thinner armor plates on the sides and rear, with a protected top and floor, [31] and weighed about 20 tons (not including the gun and mounting). [32]
The Sten submachine gun was developed following the fall of France, to supplement the limited number of Thompson submachine guns obtained from the United States. [143] One of the few resources not in short supply was petroleum oil; supplies intended for Europe were filling British storage facilities. [144]
The wall gun is the first ever to be found connected to the exhibition, according to research published in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology on Nov. 21, 2024.