Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: daveme%tekirl.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Dave Mead) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Seacoast Mortars and Nukes Message-ID: <8675@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 29 Jul 89 03:27:15 GMT References: <8630@cbnews.ATT.COM* Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 18 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Dave Mead In article <8630@cbnews.ATT.COM*, pierson@cimnet.dec.com writes: * * * From: pierson@cimnet.dec.com * * SEACOAST FORTIFICATIONS of the UNITED STATES, Emanuel Raymond Lewis, * 1970, 1979, discusses the coast defense mortars. The standard ca 1900- * 1910 was a 12 inch, in pits of 4 (later 2). After WWI some railway mounts At Fort Steven (mouth of the Columbia) we have amoung other gun fortifications some of these "four hole" mortar pits that were later converted to "two holers". The museum there states the reason for the down grade was that practice firings of volleys had *killed* something like 6(?) gunners from muzzle blast con- cussion! Kind of like dynamiting fish?