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« Reply #61 on: November 10, 2009, 12:11:29 PM » |
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It could be New Hampshire also.
Ft. Constitution NH!
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« Reply #62 on: November 10, 2009, 03:13:24 PM » |
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I'm sorry, Douglas. You've heard Aristotle's maxim, "nature abhors a vacuum," well I abhor ties, so you're on your own here buddy (you can do it).  |
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« Reply #63 on: November 10, 2009, 05:06:48 PM » |
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Double D., I think you have covered just about every East Coast fort by now, first let's eliminate Ft. Constitution in New Hampshire. Look at these photos, then take Kabar2's advice and go northeast. T&M Does THIS Sallyport look anything like the last pics that we posted of THE fort?  The Name Plaque from 1808 is still there! 201 years!  This is as far as the builders got with the Seaface embrasures. It is interesting to study these big blocks to see how they went together. Four 100 pdr. Parrott rifles were mounted in these unfinished casemates during the Civil War. The dirt overburden is about 4 feet higher than the solid granite block floor was in those days.  |
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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I climbs in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule.
The monkey can say what our road was - the wild-goat 'e knows where we passed.
Stand easy, you long-eared old darlin's! Out drag-ropes! With shrapnel! Hold fast - 'Tss! 'Tss!
From......"The Screw Guns" by Rudyard Kipling
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« Reply #64 on: November 10, 2009, 05:31:15 PM » |
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I went though Maine and couldn't match up...I may go sit in the corner and sulk! Naw back to google
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« Reply #65 on: November 10, 2009, 05:45:07 PM » |
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« Reply #66 on: November 10, 2009, 05:51:39 PM » |
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   Here!!! The absence of good clear pictures of the front of this fort made this hard!!! |
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« Reply #67 on: November 10, 2009, 06:31:29 PM » |
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The tie is broken! Congratulations Double D., you did it and there was a super good effort by Boom J. as well. Much thanks to GGaskill for a very interesting link posting. Thanks to Kabar2 for determining where Moose hang out in Northeastern New England. The final Score is as Follows:
Double D. 4.5
Boom J. 3.5
GGaskill 1.0
Double D. has earned the Title of Cannon Hunter, Extraordinaire and is entitled to all rights and privileges attached, thereto. He actually is the first contestant to repeat his former glory by winning Contest No. 1 AND Contest No.7.
What I would like to know is how did you determine the types and bore sizes on that pesky No.8 photo. Do you know anything about the service of that 9" Dahlgren Shell Gun? A Famous ship and a Famous Admiral brought it through more than one storm of shot and shell.
Congratulations, DD!!
Tracy and Mike
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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I climbs in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule.
The monkey can say what our road was - the wild-goat 'e knows where we passed.
Stand easy, you long-eared old darlin's! Out drag-ropes! With shrapnel! Hold fast - 'Tss! 'Tss!
From......"The Screw Guns" by Rudyard Kipling
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« Reply #68 on: November 10, 2009, 06:54:51 PM » |
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What I would like to know is how did you determine the types and bore sizes on that pesky No.8 photo. Do you know anything about the service of that 9" Dahlgren Shell Gun? A Famous ship and a Famous Admiral brought it through more than one storm of shot and shell.
Tracy and Mike
It'd called fuzzy matching http://www.cwartillery.org/ws-mare.html |
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« Reply #69 on: November 10, 2009, 07:12:45 PM » |
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Thanks DD, that looks like a good way to do it. That 9" Dahlgren Shell Gun, while on the deck of the Hartford went to battle with Admiral Farragut against the Mississippi Forts, Jackson and it's opposite in 1862 and into another terrific naval battle in the forced passage past Fort Morgan and the jarring encounter with the feared CSS Tennesee in the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864.
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Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I climbs in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule.
The monkey can say what our road was - the wild-goat 'e knows where we passed.
Stand easy, you long-eared old darlin's! Out drag-ropes! With shrapnel! Hold fast - 'Tss! 'Tss!
From......"The Screw Guns" by Rudyard Kipling
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« Reply #70 on: November 10, 2009, 07:18:53 PM » |
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So that's why the ocean looked slanted through that sally port.
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« Reply #71 on: November 10, 2009, 07:25:17 PM » |
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While working the Mare Island guns I came across the story of William Halford and the USS Saginaw What a story of courage and heroism. |
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« Reply #72 on: November 11, 2009, 12:49:41 AM » |
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USS Nipsic (1879-1913) In the floating drydock at Honolulu, Hawaii, circa August 1889, after arriving from Samoa for repair of damage received during the 15-16 March 1889 Apia hurricane. Not only was the propeller bent beyond repair, but the rudder and rudderpost were torn away, as were the keel and deadwood below the propeller. Note the sailors (including two Chief Petty Officers wearing enlisted "white hats"), sanitary discharge chute running from the port quarter to the water, and rudder post bracket. The words "corn meal" are written on the lower right propeller blade.   "Unable to run to deep water, the Captain ran her ashore in the harbour to save her from total destruction, damaging her propeller but saving the ship." This is a pic of the prop on display at Waterfront Park, Vallejo, CA. |
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« Reply #73 on: November 11, 2009, 01:25:42 AM » |
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They must have had to go to Hawaii at two knots to keep from shaking the ship apart.
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« Reply #74 on: November 11, 2009, 10:23:31 AM » |
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hard to believe that the prop surrvied all the ensuing scrap drives . very cool .
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« Reply #75 on: November 11, 2009, 10:27:10 AM » |
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Here is the rudder they fabricated.  |
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