Naval Guns and Army Gatling

[Helen]

Hi Guys,

Found these photos whilst exploring through all the pages of photos.

Enjoy!
Naval Maxim (Pom Pom)


To me this looks like a 8.8cm boat gun!


6cm Landing Gun


Gatling

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[Prof.Witchheimer]

Grossartig! I really like this one "Budapest" photo, someone has to sculpt that guy on the right, thanks Helen!

[fastolfrus]

Interesting mount for the gatling.
Any background info for these ?

Are they all KuK marine ?

[twrchtrwyth]

Good photos thanks.

[Helen]

Interesting mount for the gatling.
Any background info for these ?

Are they all KuK marine ?

Hi,

AFAIK they are all German sailors apart from the gatling gun.

The first photo show the SMS Panther which was a gunboat and used in WW1. Not sure on the service of the other photos, moveover the second and third photgraph shows boat guns and the latter a 6cm landing gun used on shore by naval units. The former 8.8 cm were standard deck guns on smaller fighting vessels and possibly secondary armarment on larger fighting vessels also used for arming captured vessels. The Konigsberg had two stored in the hull for such purpose before using them in the land campaign on impriovided mounts.

I don't know the history behind the gatling gun, but I'll attempt to find out.

God Bless

Helen

[XCIV]

that last is a Gatling, not a Hotchkiss Revolvign Cannon?

Looks mighty big caliber, is all. More 1-pdr or even 3-pdr than 1".

[ZuluPaul]

Looks like the gatling is on a sled for some reason.

[OSHIROmodels]

I like the monkey on the pompom 

Inspirational set of photos 

cheers

James

[aircav]

Looks like the gatling is on a sled for some reason.

It's for extreme tobogganing 

Great pictures Helen 

[Mr.Marx]

That's a Hochkiss 3-pdr Revolving cannon, not a Gatling. Still cool though, I had no idea that they were used so late or that they were ever used on land outside of fixed mounts on forts.

MM

[Plynkes]

I had no idea that they were used so late or that they were ever used on land outside of fixed mounts on forts.

They were sold as field pieces as well as on fixed mounts.





I think the Americans used them like this.

The Germans certainly did in Africa...





Now this is all very nice, but what is it with all the casual threadomancy lately? Is it really necessary to hunt down and then dig up a four-year-old thread just to tell someone they are wrong?  Bizarre.

[Plynkes]

Smokey old business once she gets going, eh?

[HerbyF]

Is the Hotchkiss photo from WWI or maybe the Russian Civil War? Sled mounted guns were not uncommon during the RCW.

[Plynkes]

"Apotheke" is German for pharmacy, I think. So RCW is perhaps unlikely. Uniforms look German too.

[Lowtardog]

That first photo and the oil painting, it must ahve been used as a basis for the painting!