16-inch gun M1895

October 2024 October 2024 16-inch coastal defense gun M1895 File:Crowds in New York watch the shipment of the 16 inch Coastal Defense Gun M1895 January 1915.jpg Crowds in New York watch the shipment of the 16-inch coastal defense gun M1895, January 1915 United States Coastal artillery yes yes 1915–1943 United States Army World War I Watervliet Arsenal 1895 Watervliet Arsenal 1 284000 lbs kg Harrisburg Telegraph 1915 Front Cover 35 calibers (56 ft m) 2400 lbs kg shell, 650 lbs kg nitrocellulose powderOrdnance, pp. 46–47 16 in (406 mm) 2250 ft/s 19300 yd hand M1912 disappearing -5° to +20° circa 160° The 16-inch coastal defense gun M1895 was a large artillery piece installed to defend major American seaports. Only one was built and it was installed in Fort Grant on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal Zone. It was operated by the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. History Under President Grover Cleveland's administration in 1885, the Board of Fortifications under William C. Endicott was ordered to investigate the value and state of the United States' coastal defenses. Endicott found that America had fallen behind and that new naval technology made many forts and coastal defense weaponry obsolete. The 1886 report recommended a $127-million ($ in US) construction program of breech-loading cannons, mortars, floating batteries, and submarine mines for some 29 locations on the US coastline. New fortifications built in the following decades as a result of this report were called "Endicott Period" fortifications.history.army.mil 2001 Finding a need for long range weaponry, the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps ordered a 16-inch (406 mm) gun, the construction of which began in 1895 at the Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, New York.The History of Fort Tilden 2007Anonymous 2015 The massive artillery piece was designated the M1895 and was completed in 1902; only one was built. At 284000 lbs kg it weighed more than any gun that had ever been created up to that point. The 32-wheel train car alone weighed 192420 lbs kg. The 56 ft m on long gun could launch a 2400 lbs kg on shell 21 mi km.The Manning Times 1915 Front Page The weapon was shipped from the Watervliet Arsenal to Watertown Arsenal in Watertown, Massachusetts to be packed for shipment to the Panama Canal Zone. It was installed on an M1912 disappearing carriage in Fort Grant on the Pacific side of the canal in 1915, where it protected the fort until it was scrapped in 1943.Berhow 2015 168–169, 223 The muzzle section was later preserved and displayed at the Watervliet Arsenal museum, which closed in 2013.Crowe 2014 Gallery See also List of U.S. Army weapons by supply catalog designation List of the largest cannon by caliber Seacoast defense in the United States 12-inch Gun M1895 16"/50 caliber M1919 gun Coast Artillery fire control system Notes 30em References Anonymous 2015 http://dingler.culture.hu-berlin.de/article/pj316/mi316mi02_2 The new 16 inch (40.5 cm) Coastal cannon of the United States of America Polytechnischen Journals 29 January 2015 28 January 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150128112655/http://dingler.culture.hu-berlin.de/article/pj316/mi316mi02_2 dead Berhow Mark A. American Seacoast Defenses, A Reference Guide Third CDSG Press Mclean, VA 2015 978-0-9748167-3-9 Crowe Kenneth C. 8 August 2014 http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Watervliet-Arsenal-Museum-won-t-reopend-5676595.php Plans dropped for revamped Watervliet Arsenal Museum Times Union 29 January 2015 Ordnance Corps US Army United States Army Ordnance Corps Description of 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16-inch Seacoast Guns 1917 Government Printing Office Washington 1616673881 https://archive.org/details/descriptionandi03statgoog Largest Single Piece of Ordance ever made Being Shipped By Uncle Sam To Protect Panama Canal Harrisburg Telegraph http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038411/1915-01-29/ed-1/seq-1/ Harrisburg Telegraph Harrisburg, Pa 12396379 29 January 1915 29 January 2015 history.army.mil 2 March 2001 http://www.history.army.mil/books/Sw-SA/Endicott.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080113074421/http://www.history.army.mil/books/sw-sa/Endicott.htm dead 13 January 2008 William Crowninshield Endicott history.army.mil 30 January 2015 The History of Fort Tilden 2007 http://www.geocities.com/fort_tilden/16ingun.html 12) 16-inch Gun Technical Data 29 January 2015 https://archive.today/20011217134824/http://www.geocities.com/fort_tilden/16ingun.html 17 December 2001 dead Biggest Gun Ready The Manning Times http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063760/1915-02-10/ed-1/seq-1/ The Manning Times 2330-8826 13611767 10 February 1915 30 January 2015 Description of Seacoast Guns 8, 10, 12, 14, 16-inch External links FortWiki gun type list Category:World War I artillery of the United States Category:World War I guns Category:World War II artillery of the United States Category:Coastal artillery Category:400 mm artillery Category:Disappearing guns