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Spain, Murcia - Cabo Tinoso
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Spain, Murcia - Cabo Tinoso Located high up on the sea cliffs at Cabo Tinoso on the coast west of Cartagena are the gun batteries of La Bateria de Castillitos, La Bateria del Jorel and La Bateria El Atalayon. Bateria Castillitos houses two of the largest canons ever manufactured. The guns were made in the UK by Vickers, the largest of which has a barrel diameter of 381mm (15") is 17 metres in length (55.7") and was capable of firing a 900kg shell for a distance of 35 Km (21.75 miles). The guns were only ever fired once in anger (April 26th 1937) at the Nationalist Forces during the Spanish Civil War. The fort seen in the foreground here is La Bateria del Jorel, which housed three Vickers 1923 152.4mm guns. These military forts were in service until as recently as 1994 when they were finally de-commissioned. File 2592. Keywords: Cabo Tinoso, La Bateria de Castillitos, La Bateria del Jorel, Spanish coastal photography, seascape, cliffs, File2592
Spain, Murcia - Cabo Tinoso Located high up on the sea cliffs at Cabo Tinoso on the coast west of Cartagena are the gun batteries of La Bateria de Castillitos, La Bateria del Jorel and La Bateria El Atalayon. Bateria Castillitos houses two of the largest canons ever manufactured. The guns were made in the UK by Vickers, the largest of which has a barrel diameter of 381mm (15") is 17 metres in length (55.7") and was capable of firing a 900kg shell for a distance of 35 Km (21.75 miles). The guns were only ever fired once in anger (April 26th 1937) at the Nationalist Forces during the Spanish Civil War. The fort seen in the foreground here is La Bateria del Jorel, which housed three Vickers 1923 152.4mm guns. These military forts were in service until as recently as 1994 when they were finally de-commissioned. File 2592. Keywords: Cabo Tinoso, La Bateria de Castillitos, La Bateria del Jorel, Spanish coastal photography, seascape, cliffs, File2592
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Located high up on the sea cliffs at Cabo Tinoso

on the coast west of Cartagena are the gun batteries of La Bateria de Castillitos, La Bateria del Jorel and La Bateria El Atalayon. Bateria Castillitos houses two of the largest canons ever manufactured. The guns were made in the UK by Vickers, the largest of which has a barrel diameter of 381mm (15") is 17 metres in length (55.7") and was capable of firing a 900kg shell for a distance of 35 Km (21.75 miles). The guns were only ever fired once in anger (April 26th 1937) at the Nationalist Forces during the Spanish Civil War.
The fort seen in the foreground here is La Bateria del Jorel, which housed three Vickers 1923 152.4mm guns.
These military forts were in service until as recently as 1994 when they were finally de-commissioned. File 2592.