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Tuesday, 31 March 2026

The Defence of Melbourne, Redux?

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Great to catch with a gaming mate recently (lets call him Dave, mostly because thats his name). Of course was showing him my recently comple...

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Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Attack on the Williamstown Batteries

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THE MONITOR CERBERUS ATTACKING THE WILLIAMSTOWN BATTERIES AND H.M.S. NELSON Source: The Illustrated Australian News, 23 April 1872 The Atta...

Monday, 28 March 2016

Melbourne's Sea Forts that never were

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Proposed but never built, based on the Channel forts off Portsmouth, UK. Would have made fascinating additions to the Victorian defensive n...

Thursday, 7 January 2016

RML 9 inch Armstrong Fortress Guns, Fort Gellibrand, Melbourne

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These 9 inch (228mm) Rifled Muzzle Loading guns are 12 ton Armstrong Fortress guns (300 pounder guns - actual weight of shot was 256lb). ...

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Saturday, 20 November 2010

The Defence of Melbourne

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Real documentation for the defensive plans for the colony of Melbourne (against those dastardly Russians most likely!), including the layere...

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Sunday, 25 October 2009

Attack on Melbourne

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Interesting details of a colonial harbour defense plan (minus the aerostats and aquanefs of course!). Reproduced unaltered from http://www...

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