Really Big Guns!

[John Hartwell]

I don't know the origin of this photo of a number of heavy artillery pieces on stationary carriages. Given the variety of guns, I expect they were on display somewhere. I would guess probably turn of he last century. The only visible people are in mufti: possibly veterans reliving their garrison days.

Can anybody identify the types?

 

[UCVRelics]

I don't know the origin of this photo of a number of heavy artillery pieces on stationary carriages. Given the variety of guns, I expect they were on display somewhere. I would guess probably turn of he last century. The only visible people are in mufti: possibly veterans reliving their garrison days.

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Can anybody identify the types?

Lost all my arty books in the flood but I'll take a stab.
On the far end is a Dahlgren
Can't see the one next to it
the 3rd from the far end Parrott
paging @redbob

 

[redbob]

#1 Agree
#2 Possibly a Brooke Rifle
#3Agree
#4 British Armstrong, The thing that they all have in common is that they all appear to be Naval guns.
#5???
#6 Rodman

 

[Robert Gray]

Ordnance proving ground, Annapolis, MD. 1866.

The foreground gun breech is a Dahlgren gun, probably 8-inch or 9-inch, as is the rearmost gun. The next gun may be a US Navy 32-pounder, and the bulbous built-up gun is a British-made Armstrong 8-inch (150-pounder) muzzle-loading rifle. Beyond the Armstrong gun the breech of a large Parrott rifle is visible.

 

[Michael C. Hardy]

I wonder about the history of that Armstrong... Was it from Fort Fisher?

 

[redbob]

I recently read an article that had a picture of these guns taken from the other direction and the caption was that this was the practice battery at the Naval Academy in the 1870's and that the Armstrong was in fact the Fort Fisher gun.

 

[NFB22]

Found this caption online:

The foreground gun breech is a Dahlgren gun, probably 8-inch or 9-inch, as is the rearmost gun. The next gun may be a US Navy 32-pounder, and the bulbous built-up gun is a British-made Armstrong 8-inch (150-pounder) muzzle-loading rifle. Beyond the Armstrong gun the breech of a large Parrott rifle is visible.

 

[Lubliner]

Annapolis 1866? I see electricity wires in the photo. What else could they be? Edit-Telegraph...
Lubliner. (duh).