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Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. [1] In modern times, coastal artillery has generally been replaced with anti-ship missiles , such as the Ukrainian R-360 Neptune .
The Dover Strait coastal guns were long-range coastal artillery batteries that were sited on both sides of the English Channel during the Second World War. The British built several gun positions along the coast of Kent , England while the Germans fortified the Pas-de-Calais in occupied France .
12-inch coast defense mortar United States: 1895 - 1945 305: 12-inch gun M1895 United States: 1895 - 1945 305: 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun Nazi Germany: 1909 - 1945 340: 340mm/45 Modèle 1912 gun France: World War II: 343: BL 13.5 inch naval gun Mk III disappearing gun United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 343: BL 13.5-inch Mk V railway gun United ...
The Mk IX was designed as a coast defence gun, with a three-motion breech. Only fourteen were built and the Mk X, introduced in 1900 and incorporating a single-motion breech and changed rifling, succeeded them. As coastal artillery, the Mk X remained in service in Britain until 1956, and in Portugal until 1998.
With the danger of invasion after the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk, the coastal artillery regiments underwent a major reorganisation in the summer of 1940. On 14 July the three T&M heavy batteries were expanded into three complete coast regiments: [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
The 6-pounder gun mark I in twin coastal artillery mount. The first twin 6-pounders were installed at Singapore in 1937. The first UK installation was at Eastern Arm Battery in Dover, just before the outbreak of World War II. [3] Also in 1939, nine pairs of guns were installed in Fort St. Elmo and Fort Ricasoli in the Grand Harbour at Valletta ...
0–9. 1st Coast Artillery Group, Royal Artillery; 7th Coast Artillery Group, Royal Artillery; 21st Coast Artillery Group, Royal Artillery; 309th (Westmorland and Cumberland) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery
With the increasing importance of artillery defences by the mid-Nineteenth century (and the usual reluctance of the British Government to fund an expansion of the regular military forces), a military reserve artillery force became a pressing concern to aid in maintaining the fixed defensive batteries (the units tasked with these duties were referred to either as garrison artillery or coastal ...