Victoria’s Guns: A Field Guide

AS NEW. This illustrated field guide is the first published survey of Victoria’s pre-Federation large guns. The author, Bill Billett, Curator of Arms & Armour at the Museum of Victoria, identifies and describes the known surviving colonial guns and their locations in over forty Victorian towns and cities. pp. 86 illusts First Edition #1020 ARTILLERY10-inch RML 6-Pr SB Arms/Pall Arms/Pall Arms/Pall Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong Palliser Army Australian Ballarat Ballarat Ballarat Bandiana barrel Battery cannon Carron Carron Carron carronade Colac collection Colony cover Daylesford defences distribution entrance fired four Hastings historic HMAS Cerberus HMVS Nelson Hobson’s Bay Hotchkiss Hotchkiss interest Island known located Louy Moor Louy Maker 32-Pr SB Marked Not Marked Melbourne Melbourne Memorial Moor Louy Moor mounted moved muzzle Nature Northcote Number Maker 32-Pr obtained officer once Ordnance origin Park Photograph placed Point Port Fairy Portland Portsea Private QF 3-Pr QF Queenscliff Queenscliff Queenscliff restored RGF RGF RGF RML 64-Pr RML RML 9-in RML RML guns Royal Gun Factory SB 32-Pr SB SB 6-Pr SB 68–Pr SB SB guns ship South stands Town trunnions Type Year Weight Verdon Victoria’s Visible Walker Warrnambool Warrnambool Weight Number Maker Williamstown