http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/ Support Your Local Fort Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:58:26 GMT Bill Ricker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12754 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12754 ... Emil built it, his father Louis designed it, per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Gathmann They are popularly credited with Bertha etc design due to Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:58:38 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12753 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12753 Reminder from: CoastDefense Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/cal Battery Townsley Open House Sunday February 7, 2010 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:25:16 GMT Elliot Deutsch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12752 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12752 Speaking of unusual artillery: somewhere in my library I have but have been unable to locate in reasonable time to add to this dialogue, an article on the Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:20:24 GMT Bill Ricker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12751 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12751 ... Wow, not only commissioned but fired in anger and with with an advantage or two. Thanks Gene. -- Bill n1vux@... bill.n1vux@... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:45:47 GMT GENE SLOVER http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12750 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12750 USS Vesuvius 1888 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vesuvius_(1888) Gene Slover ... From: John R Henry To: CoastDefense@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:28:18 GMT vexillarii@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12749 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12749 And then there's the idea of building a cannon to lob stuff to the Moon: _A Cannon for Shooting Supplies into Space | Popular Science_ Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:48:13 GMT tsofian@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12748 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12748 That was a fanzine for a game called Space 1889. I wrote several articles for Transactions and am now heavily involved in another Victorian Science Fiction Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:05:05 GMT John R Henry http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12747 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12747 ... I'd never heard of it before but found an interesting article here: http://www.heliograph.com/trmgs/trmgs1/dynamite.shtml Best, John R Henry CPP I will be Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:49:42 GMT Elliot Deutsch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12746 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12746 It's just a modern version of Zalinski's pneumatic Dynamite Gun if the late 19th Century Elliot ... From: John R Henry To: CoastDefense@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:45:18 GMT John R Henry http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12745 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12745 ... There was a good HBO movie made about Bull starring Alan Arkin, Frank Langella and Kevin Spacey. It is called "The Doomsday Gun" and is available through Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:37:37 GMT John R Henry http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12744 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12744 Now this is what we need for coast defense! http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-01/air-cannon-sends-pumpkins-3700-feet It does a real nice job with Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:52:33 GMT shorepatroll@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12743 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12743 _http://www.printroom.com/ViewGalleryPhoto.asp?evgroupid=0&shopperid=WQCR1DW 38BF28HP7VKMCTQN6CHR97NR7&userid=caviews&gallery_id=1440453&image_id=37&pos= 45_ Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:56:22 GMT Jim Webster http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12742 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12742 Some interesting images on ebay that are worth viewing.. 150407224868--1939 US 16 inch, barbette, shell, closeup 150407226079--1941 US 16 inch coast artillery Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:27:17 GMT skfanciullo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12741 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12741 There might be some remains of Bull's supergun projects located near Highwater, Que. Canada. This information is based upon article in the magazine Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:57:33 GMT Pete Payette http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12740 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/12740 Thanks Steve.   What about the Chain Home Low?  On the Atlantic Coast several sources mention "CDX" units in Saint John and Halifax, in reference to the