The Gunships GB - General Discussion

[Old Wombat]

Wasn't allowed to view that video from Oz, but there was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEwF7VAaEA

[Rheged]

What was the recoil like with one of those ?

About 12 to 15 feet.  The gun is more or less built into the gun-punt.   

  Desmond Bagley's book  The Tightrope Men   describes the effect of a punt gun fired into the mist to quell a group of opponents        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tightrope_Men

[jcf]

Been musing on the idea of a "Shore Bombardment Ship" based on one of the 1890's pre-Dreadnaughts with those flat sunken turrets seemingly at random spots on the hull. You could replace the guns in the turrets with large mortars or howitzers, or maybe replace some of the turrets with barbettes or just gun pits ?

US 12" Seacoast mortar.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-inch_coast_defense_mortar

1/35th scale model to give an idea of size.




Just about everything you'd need to know, US Army manual:
Oct 17, 1942 · TM 9-456 12-inch Seacoast Materiel: 12-inch Mortar M1890MI Mounted on 12-inch Mortar
Carriage M1896MI and M1896MII 1942-10 ...
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/TM/pdfs/TM9-456.pdf

[NARSES2]

That's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about Jon.

That's a nice model of it as well. I've built a couple of 1/72 : 1/76 models of a British 60pdr and a BL 12" Howitzer for a friend who's grandfather was in the RGA in WWI. Glad I did them before the eyesight worsened as all artillery models are intricate, but fascinating subjects.

[NARSES2]

What was the recoil like with one of those ?

About 12 to 15 feet.  The gun is more or less built into the gun-punt.   

What was the recoil like with one of those ?

It'd blow the boat back a good few feet. If you were daft enough to hold it you'd be on the ground with a broken shoulder. Ammo was whatever gravel, scrap metal and ball bearings you could find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2NUCJOYRE8  This is only a small one....

Ta 

[zenrat]

A large mortar or howitzer in1/72 mounted in an Airfix LCM and you have an adhoc moniter for shore bombardment.

[NARSES2]

A forthcoming Osprey book is about Victorian Royal Navy gunboats, shame it didn't come out a tad earlier

[loupgarou]

A forthcoming Osprey book is about Victorian Royal Navy gunboats, shame it didn't come out a tad earlier

But this one is available since a while...
Konstam Angus   Osprey New Vang 239 Nile river gunboats
as, more serious, this one:
Buxton Ian   Big gun monitors  Seaforth   2016

[Rheged]

A forthcoming Osprey book is about Victorian Royal Navy gunboats, shame it didn't come out a tad earlier

But this one is available since a while...
Konstam Angus   Osprey New Vang 239 Nile river gunboats
as, more serious, this one:
Buxton Ian   Big gun monitors  Seaforth   2016

Angus Konstam has written a lot of good stuff for Osprey......I shall look out for this one

I think Chris has in mind things like the Rendel Gunboats, a cheap coastal defence weapon.  I think Norway has one of theirs under restoration.

[McColm]

I keep changing my mind on which kit to use Avro York or Avro Shackleton MR.3.