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Fort Stony Batter - Visitors' Book

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Other 9.2 Guns.

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Fort Stony Batter - What To Take

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Other 9.2 Guns.

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Fort Stony Batter - Sentimental Journeys

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Other 9.2 Guns. Army hardware being landed at Kennedy Point, Waiheke Island, on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings: RSA groups and J-Force Army equipment. Trucks included an NZMVCC Studebaker 434762 and a 'Puddle-jumper.'. If you want to get to Stony Batter the fast (and very expensive) way, use a helicopter.

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Fort Stony Batter - Restoration

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Other 9.2 Guns. Where the pump-shed used to be during the war. It had long since vanished, leaving only the foundation. Restoration by society volunteers in the twenty-first century, well under way.

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Fort Stony Batter - Photo Album

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Other 9.2 Guns. An aerial view of Stony Batter, which shows all three gun-pits. An aerial view that shows two gun-pits. It looks in the same direction as a shot of the Top Camp on the camps page. The unassuming main entrance to the underground complex. The doors have been painted red, as they were originally. When the fort was operational that meant explosives were stored within. No explosives of any sort are stored there now. Bunker Number One, one of three bunkers for the crews that manned the complex.

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Fort Stony Batter - Camps

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The lifeboat came from the Niagra, which was sunk just north of New Zealand by a mine laid by the German Navy. It was found at Devonport with some sprung planks, brought down to Man O'War Bay and repaired. It became the boat the men used for fishing and for escaping from the camp for weekends. Because of Stony Batter's remoteness, and the distance between it and the landing areas at Man O'War Bay used for shipping in materials and supplies, two camps were needed for its service personnel. Another reason ...

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Fort Stony Batter - Homepage

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Other 9.2 Guns. This page yet to be built. This page yet to be built. Spend hours exploring the underground tunnels, command-posts, munitions rooms, etc. Or take the fifteen-minute tour, or longer guided tours. NOTE: The skeleton website you might see at www.stonybatter.org. Was not officially set up either by the Society. Breathtaking panoramic views of the Hauraki Gulf and Coromandel Peninsular. A fascinating family adventure in a farmland setting. An historic feat of New Zealand engineering. Remain, a...

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Fort Stony Batter - Construction

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The guns installed at Stony Batter were 9.2-inch (the shells they fired were 9.2 in diameter- 233.7mm). A gun weighed 110-120 tonnes. It was heavier if its turret had 2-inch steel armour-plating. The barrels weighed 28 tonnes; they were 442.75 (11.25 metres) long, and 34.75 (882.7mm) in diameter at the breach end. The guns were mounted in concrete pits 40 feet (12.19 metres) in diameter. Unfortunately, the New Zealand Government destroyed the ones at Stony Batter in the 1960s, even though Waiheke locals ...

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Fort Stony Batter - Other 9.2" Guns

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Other 9.2 Guns. The 92 gun, called 'Spur', at the Duxford Museum, Cambridge, England. Spur with the glacis in front of the gun, behind the group from Stony Batter. Spur: rear, and inside and underneath showing the gearing. The Oliver Hill 9.2 gun at Rottnest Island, off Freemantle, Western Australia, and a tunnel. The 92 gun, 'O'Hara' in the Straits of Gibraltar. The 92 gun, MKI, in Brazil.

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Fort Stony Batter - Soldiers & Workers

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Other 9.2 Guns. Roy Butler, on the right, who helped build Stony Batter, still lives on Waiheke Island, and is still involved with the former fort. He belongs to the Stony Batter Protection and Restoration Society Incorporated, and he is active in the ongoing restoration work. It is his badge pictured above the menus on each of these pages, and in the greatly enlarged shot below. Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt. Is the motto of the Royal New Zealand Artillery. It means: Where Fate and Glory Lead.