Fort Siloso
6_Inch BL Battery - No.2 Gun
ABOVE: The No.2 Mark 24 6-Inch BL Gun on a practice shoot. Smoke can be seen in front to the barrel. Just off-shore in the left-hand photo is a kelong, which is a fish trap with a hut on stilts. There were once common in Singapore. In the photo on the right, shells are lined up on the emplacement. Just above the shells can be seen a 
storage locker in the passageway which runs between the emplacements. These were called ‘Ready To Use Lockers’ as they stored shells and propellant charges raised from the magazine prior to the need for them so that they were immediately to hand when required.
LEFT & RIGHT: The gun barrel of the No.2 Mark 24 6-Inch BL Gun being ‘Skidded’.
LEFT: Approaching the No. 2 Gun Emplacement. An entrance to the magazine is between the bottom two sets of railings. To the right of these railings, in front of the steel doors on the side wall of the emplacement, is a metal plate over the top of a concrete square. This plate is covering the top of the shaft to the ammunition hoist which once served this gun emplacement.
RIGHT: The entrance to the Magazine.
RIGHT: More Ready to Use Lockers. These are to the right of the steps leading up to the gun emplacement.
There is an entrance into the centre of the gun ring here. This allowed access to the pivot mounting for servicing etc.
LEFT: Lockers behind the Emplacement, before and after restoration. Restoration work at the fort was carried out between 1993 and 1995. Additional work has been carried out since, some of which has destroyed some of he history of the Fort.
LEFT & CENTRE: The Passageway between emplacements before & after restoration
RIGHT: Evidence of the overhead cover for the guns by the No.2 Emplacement.
LEFT: The No2 Gun Ring and Holdfast.
The holdfast was a circular concrete fixing set in the floor of the emplacement. A gun’s pivot mounting was bolted to the Holdfast. A 6-Inch BL or QF Gun had 24 bolts. The Holdfasts in both emplacements were smoothed off by the Fort’s owners when a Mark IV 9.2-Inch Gun Barrel was mounted in each emplacement for display purposes. These were later moved to their present location outside the Casemates.