page_title: List of disappearing gun installations
section_title: On land
hierarchical_section_title: List of disappearing gun installations / On land
caption_attribution_description: English: 1886 Mk V six-inch Armstrong Disappearing Gun at Taiaroa Head, Dunedin, New Zealand
context_page_description: This is a list of disappearing gun installations. These are artillery installed behind fortification walls with mechanisms that lift the gun for firing and then retract it to protection. These were installed, especially in coastal defenses, from the 1860s until as late as 1923, and were in service as late as the beginning of World War II.
  Guns in retractable turrets within the Maginot Line and the Atlantic Wall that are sometimes termed "disappearing guns", are not included.
  The locations of some still-existing installations may be seen in linked OSM or Google maps.
context_section_description: Australia
  Ben Buckler Gun Battery, Bondi, New South Wales
  Flagstaff Hill Fort, Wollongong, New South Wales
  Fort Queenscliff, Port Phillip, Victoria, with a recovered gun from South Channel Fort
  Fort Nepean, Port Phillip, Victoria
  Fort Scratchley, Newcastle, New South Wales
  Henry Head Battery, Sydney, New South Wales
  Steel Point Battery, Vaucluse, Sydney, New South Wales
  Signal Hill Battery, Watsons Bay, Sydney, New South Wales
  South Channel Fort, Port Phillip, Victoria
  Fort Lytton, Brisbane, Queensland
  Bermuda
  Scaur Hill Fort, 64 pounder Rifled Muzzle Loaders on Moncrieff disappearing mounts
  Canada
  Cape Spear, Newfoundland 10" ex-US Buffington-Crozier-mounted guns installed in WWII; the tubes remain, but the mounts were scrapped.
  Fort Rodd Hill, British Columbia
  Hong Kong
  Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence (Formerly Lei Yue Mun Fort), Hong Kong
  New Zealand (Armstrong Disappearing Guns)
  Fort Ballance, (Miramar, Wellington), one barrel of a BL 8-inch gun recovered
  Fort Jervois (Lyttelton), one mostly intact BL 6-inch Mk V and one working-order BL 8-inch gun
  North Head (North Shore, Auckland), one remaining gun barrel with mostly intact carriage
  Taiaroa Head (Dunedin) one restored BL 6-inch Mk V
  Philippines
  Fort Mills, Corregidor Island, Manila Bay, Luzon
  Fort Frank and Fort Hughes, Carabao and Caballo Islands, Manila Bay, Luzon
  Fort Wint, Grande Island, Subic Bay, Luzon
  South Africa
  9.2 inch disappearing gun in Fort Wynyard, Cape Town. Visible in Google Earth. 33°54.136′S 18°24.807′E
  Formerly buried disappearing gun in Sea Point, Cape Town.
  Thailand
  Phraya Chulachomklao Fort, Bangkok, seven Armstrong BL 6 inch guns on hydropneumatic disappearing carriages, all in working condition
  United Kingdom
  Flat Holm, Bristol Channel, Wales
  Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth, England
  Crownhill Fort, Plymouth, England
  Pendennis Castle, Falmouth
  United States
  See Harbor Defense Command for a list of US forts 1890-1945, most with disappearing guns
  Fort Miley, California had two 12-inch rifled guns mounted on Buffington-Crozier disappearing carriages
  Battery Chamberlin, Presidio of San Francisco. Four-gun battery, with one of the few Buffington-Crozier disappearing carriages still operating. 37.793607°N 122.482835°W)
  Batteries Mendell and Alexander at Fort Barry defended San Francisco Bay
  Fort Mott, New Jersey, Harbor Defenses of the Delaware, defense of Philadelphia, had three 12-inch disappearing guns by about 1901, and also three 10-inch guns added to the battery by 1903.
  Battery Potter, Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, New Jersey. This is the only remaining steam hydraulic (gun lift) battery.
  Fort Casey, Washington.  Battery Worth (48°09′51.8″N 122°40′39.4″W), one of the Fort Casey batteries, is home of two Buffington-Crozier mounted guns moved from Fort Wint (Subic Bay, Philippines.)
  Fort Stevens, Oregon, the only military installation in the continental United States to receive hostile fire during World War II
  Battery Cooper at Fort Pickens near Pensacola, Florida contains one 6-inch M1905 gun on a disappearing carriage.
  Fort Wool, Virginia.  Built at the entrance to the Hampton Roads area of Virginia just past the Chesapeake Bay
  Fort Fremont, Saint Helena Island, SC. 1899 - 1912. 3x 10" disappearing guns (removed) overlooking Port Royal sound, and Parris Island.
caption: Armstrong BL 6-inch Mk V disappearing gun at Taiaroa Head, New Zealand
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