Mount Serapong Gun Emplacements
LEFT: A Mark X 9.2-Inch Gun on a Mark V Barbette Mounting. This quite possibly the No.1 Gun of the Serapong Battery.
RIGHT: All Shells and Propellant Charges were hoisted up to the gun from below the steel gun platform. This gave ammunition handlers a measure of protection.
The Mark X Gun on a Mark V Mounting had a range of 17,400 Yards (15,910meters) and fired a shell weighing 380 Lbs (172.37) kg at a muzzle velocity of 823 meters per second.
LEFT: The No.1 Gun Emplacement during excavation work at the time of the 2006 archaeological survey and dig on Mount Serapong.
The double circle of 46 mounting bolts for the Mark V Mounting is easily seen. The trench running through the circle was for the Accumulator (battery) Pit. Left of centre is the Ammunition Hoist with an Ammunition recess left foreground. The Shell Recess is in the far face of the emplacement.
RIGHT: Just showing above ground is the No.2 Gun’s. Ammunition Hoist.
LEFT: The No.2 Gun Emplacement seen from the path. The emplacement has been badly damaged. As to when the damage was done, or what caused the damage, that is not known. What is known is that Japanese bombs fell in this area, one destroying a building not far away.
RIGHT: An Ammunition Recess in the No.2 Gun Emplacement.