Is this animated?

@@Coreybug no?

@@Coreybug is your brain working?

can we shoot it at my exes house?

@@dah9vandals lol

You are 100% correct

Means crew are protected from small arms etc while reloading! Genius. . .

You wouldn't have needed to raise it all the way either due to its bordering on counter weight design. Only about half way before it went into place.

An artillery piece crew is a wonder to watch. Every movement is choreographed; the choregraphy is based on speed and safety. There are drill manuals that specify each position and the duty of each artilleryman.

... boaring ... why not a full load ... my muzzleloderrifle is louder!

Dont think they can do this as crownhill is surrounded by houses

Damp squid :)

Noise. Ordinance.

Ordnance

@@skinniestfatman5641 Don't see why not.

It has no projectile

Unfortunately blank charges do not produce the intended recoil. If we were to load a projectile the residents of suburban Plymouth might have cause for complaint!

Id be afraid that thing would explode

This comment almost makes up for it not disappearing.

It’s called that because, with a projectile firing out if it, the opposite reaction would be gun recoil in which it would send the gun below the wall into its resting position where the enemy could not see it.

how big is that gun? Do they know if they managed to lift the gun out, or they managed to tip it over the wall, when it was in an upraised position. do people know what direction it went down the hill, if it did (what is the chance that it might have managed to get all the way down (mass in movement) What is the chance for he come back at a later time and dug it up again (metal is money)

@@heuhen apparently tipped the gun off straight into a pre dug hole but your right that was 90 years ago he could have came back for it shame really

That's a crying shame.

So are you saying they sold the gun to a scrap dealer or that the scrap dealer stole it?

@@JasonWW2000 the gun was located in buckle street which was an army base and many years later became a police headquarters only 20m away from where the gun would have been they were still hanging people for crimes so I'm assuming the scrap dealer was a decent chap

The safety was only relative. The “bombs bursting in air” would have put a lot of shrapnel down in that pit.

Wouldn't have made it accurate, you'd be lucky to hit your target after firing hundreds of rounds.

these guns had a rate of fire of : 1 rounds per minute, sometimes 0.5 rounds per minute. (for both 8 inch version and 16 inch version), while German 15 inch guns had a firing rate of 2.5 rounds per minute (as standard). For example HMS Warspite 15 inch guns had a rate of fire of 2 rounds per minute (but there have been situation, where there was reports of 2 rounds per minute.

@@heuhen speaking of guns half a century newer is of little concern, like saying how obsolete todays military is compared to the new 2070 military in 50 years

@@machintelligence while somewhat true the guns of the 4 fortified islands in Manila bay fired almost up to the last days before surrender in may 1942 . Some were knocked out, but not most. Many of them were same type as this. Also a large contingent of 12 inch sea coast mortars. The problem was they were made to fire at ships coming from South China Sea, not land targets. Much of the ammunition was useless for that.

I wish we still had some of our disappearing guns here at Fort Crockett on the Gulf coast.

Fort Casey& Fort Worden in Washington

​​@@lanedexter6303I immediately thought of Fort Worden as well. I love that place. So strange that we both found this 4-year-old video on the same day.

@@lanedexter6303 There are examples at Fort Casey, but only empty bunkers at Fort Worden. BTW, the guns at Fort Casey were not original to the fort but were imported from the Philippines after WW2. If you go there you will find damage to them from American aircraft. The breach blocks are also missing as they were dropped in the ocean on the way to WA.

@@FishKepr interesting, thanks! I remember going to Fort Casey years ago, and being fascinated by the mechanism of those guns. Too bad we can never see them in operation. Those forts could have truly commanded that strait before aircraft carrier warfare evolved.

Was gonna say....even without all the explanation, civilian volunteers, your target better not be moving too fast...

A trained crew can do it a heck of a lot faster.

🤙😂

Considering how state of the art this was when it was made, with a fully trained crew this would have been a rather rapid firing piece of artillery for its day.

Just some extra info: Some British disappearing 8 inch guns had a firing rate of 1 round/minutes sometimes 0.5 round/minutes. The weird things is the bigger 16 inch guns version had a firing rate of right around 1 round/minute. The rate of fire was a big disadvantage of these guns, specially when a Battleship 15 inch guns, like those on HMS Warspite firing 2 round/minutes. Have heard stories about they do 3 rounds/minutes, in some situation, but 2 rounds/minutes are the normal for battleships. A British 8 inch cruiser guns could fire between 3 to 6 rounds/minute. HMS Belfast 6 inch guns had between 6-8 rounds/minutes. (Note: Nelson class battleship, had 1.5 rounds/minute) (Note: German Bismarck class battleships 15 inch guns had 2.5-3 rounds/minute, while WW1 Baden class battleships fired 2.5 rounds a minute)

When you realize, 10 years ago buy powder and caps

I think the Yamato fired shells weighing over 3,000lb and could accurately hit targets over 20 miles away. Naval gun technology is awesome

@@lanequick7451 what is amazing is we went from muzzle loading balls of solid iron, to precision guided munitions, within 100 years.

There is a 5.5 ton counterweight at the front of the Gun, the two people on the wooden bars get the system to its tipping point where gravity takes over

I guess the goal is that it stays down easier once the recoil puts it there. Otherwise if you miss the brake then it's stuck up in the danger zone and you have to "pump it down"

Yeah, a pivoting gun, thats really remarkable indeed

@@Kinsanth_ my little ponie pfp, opinion discarded.

@@airmanfpv964 another person, which doesnt like the taste of other people. You really should learn to at least tolerate others, when you are incapable of accepting them, that would show mininal respect to others. And your lashing out on others is a sign, that you just want others to feel more bad than yourself. How about working out your own issues instead of bothering others? That would really help out in the long run

@@Kinsanth_ well, i cant say much can i, not only is my pfp anime but its yuri and genshin impact yuri Though i did get bored of the game

Average KZfaq argument

Not every one can understand a foreign language...

@@Triggernlfrl but they know it well enough to comment in it?

@@Triggernlfrl He says, in English

What?

We would love to see the Gun fire a projectile but given its location in the middle of a city that will never happen

@@crownhillfort2061 oh my yea I thought the Fort was further away from any cities my bad! Still an amazing sight to witness such an amazing piece of engineering and craftsmanship

To be fair it is in the middle of a city...firing a projectile in any direction will kill a lot of people...

@@dogsnads5634 isnt that a naval gun? Wouldnt it be facing the ocean?

@@loganwalker8537 yes I say let one fly blody hell life just isn't fun anymore all you'll do is kill some fish ha ha !

A big cork with a string attached would work. 🤭

@@dogsnads5634 this is a navel gun........ That shoots at ships....... In the ocean........

We definitely have it easier with the M109 paladin.

There's actually dozens of them. We just keep losing sight of them.

@@con.troller4183 You mean ..... they keep disappearing? 🙊

@@jabberwocky1707 ba-DUM... pish!

I imagine a full Royal Artillery crew would bring it into position a damn sight faster, Also by the looks of it this may be black powder, so it would cause a rather large cloud of smoke that would conceal the gun, I saw one comment saying it can manage around 1 shot per minute, So I doubt the smoke would clear that quickly, especially after a few shots. Also the enemy assaulting the fort would have more things to worry about, plus the Fort is uphill of any assaulting army, so you probably wouldn't get that good of a look at the thing when in the firing position.

@god is dead I don't know much about this place. However near Victoria, BC, Canada(or if a person knows CFB Esquimalt), there's an old British defensive post. It's a historic site know, Fort Rodd Hill. I toured around there and there are several spots similar to this pit. Perhaps that fort had similar guns to the one shown in this video. 🤔

There are other disappearing guns at Queenscliffe & Fort Nepean, on both ends of the capes around Port Phillip Bay. I'm not sure if the gun itself is still at Fort Nepean, but the emplacement is certainly there.

😂

The Port Fairy guns are 80 pr Armstrong muzzle loaders. The one in the video appears to be a 110 pr breech loader, also Armstrong.

You actually had 16 words....just sayin....

The reason they fell out of fashion is largely due to planes and improvements in naval gunnery fire rate.

It's in the middle of the city of Plymouth...

@@dogsnads5634 so?

@@Pineapple-co6fe sooo, what goes up must come down

@@RandomThingPosted exactly

Yup,they just posted it on top of comment chain

This is Crownhill Fort, Plymouth, UK.

@@curlybrownliz Thank You! Quite interesting!

Crown Hill Fort is located at Plymouth which is in Devon UK.

You realize this man is old, right?

the armor need to be the same level as the wall, then what's the point? Notice the gun at 'disappear' stage. Portable shield 🛡️ makes more sense. At 'appear' stage, in battle, probably he do it real quick while crotching or using long stick

He was puting in the fuse through the priming hole into the powder in the gun I think. That would be done when the gun was in the lowered position I would think in a war situation.

As them Yanks say, fire in the hole... Hahaa

Close! With a 7" bore this one would fire 110lb shells

That was the small field gun, this is the 110 pounder naval gun. It turned out to be a failure.

It would be much faster with a crew younger that 90.

A navy hauling isum. Instead of saying the timing as “two three !“ , which is what the army did . The Royal Navy thought they were twice as good, so they said “two six!”……….,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_six_heave

@@btbplanevids Thanks for the reference!

Two and six were members of a numbered gun crew,so they said two six to pull the gun forward after loading in a wooden sailing ship.then it became the norm for any thing in the Royal navy that required muscle

Thanks for the suggestion, Landmark has a digital content manager and I am sure she can work her magic on this video

Well the gun type is in the description and if I had to guess it’s at crow hill fort, hence the uploaded name

From the main title and description we can determine the following: Gun Type: Moncrieff Disappearing Gun Location: Crownhill Fort (Plymoth). The gun itself is a replica as all Moncrieff guns were dismantled in the early 1900s. It's a 7-in gun, and the original gun had a weight of 7-tons.

Without purpose these Forts are vulnerable to vandalism and decay. Fortunately Crownhill is a self-sustaining entity that has a viable future

@@crownhillfort2061 I hope so. It is a disgrace what is happening to this one great nation.

Unfortunately, these guns largely fell out of fashion in WWI with the invention of aerial warfare and with improvements to naval gunnery. The only time at which they were used in WWII afaik was in the Philippines in the old and outdated batteries.

Against the modern guns it wouldn't last but this was from 1880's. Most naval or land guns, of that time, would take a while to reduce that gun and it would be hard to target the area until it was up to fire. And the black powder smoke would also help hide it. I am not sure when the range finders came out.

You're missing the fact they're shooting nothing but powder and thus not causing any recoil which would drive the gun back down, hence "disappearing".

Being in a fort up on a hill or cliff, the gun would have to be raised up to fire down on the enemy ship passing by. All loading and setting up can be done in relative safety, minimising exposure of the gun crew.