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Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Defence of the Realm - Penarth Head Fort and Coastal Battery . . .

The 6-inch Mark VII Coastal Defence Gun - some technical and historical detail.
   
1902 - The searchlights - Projector Mark III - similar to those installed below the Penarth Head Fort and Coastal Battery?
   
A map illustrating the interlocking fields of fire between two of our local coastal batteries i.e. Penarth Head Fort and Coastal Battery and that situated at Nell's Point, Barry.

1911 - Handbook of the 6-inch B.L. Guns, Marks VII and VIIv (Land Service), Published by HMSO in 1911 - 92 pages. Download in .pdf format. [source : The State Library of Victoria.] [1127] 

Further investigation is necessary to establish the manufacturer of the two guns installed upon Penarth Head. The most likely candidate is the orginator of the design viz., Vickers Sons & Maxim of Sheffield, or perhaps, Armstrong's of Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or The Woolwich Arsenal.

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