Howitzer, Fort Rinella, Kalkara, Malta.
8 inch Howitzer shoot. Fort Rinella, Kalkara, Malta, August 2010.
GUN EXHIBITION FORT RINELLA@KALKARA(MALTA)
Built in 1878 by the British, Fort Rinella was the most technologically advanced war machine of its day. Powered by coal-fired steam driven hydraulics it could fire its monstrous 100-ton gun every six minutes, sending a one-ton shell up to a distance of eight miles to pierce no less than 21 inches (65cm) of ship armour!
Fort Rinella was one of four 100-ton gun batteries built in Malta and Gibraltar for the protection of the harbours. These forts became necessary with the building of two powerful Italian battleships; the Duilio and Dandalo, both armed with four 100-ton guns each in revolving turrets. At the time, Britain used the Mediterranean as a quick route to India and it was feared that the growing naval power of Italy might tip the balance of power in the region.
The 100-ton gun was first developed for Italy by the great British Victorian inventor and industrialist from Newcastle, Sir William George Armstrong. The 100-ton gun was the world's largest muzzle-loading cannon ever to be built. It has a calibre of 17.72-inches (45cm) and it is 35 feet (11m) long. It fired explosive elongated shot using a quarter of a ton of black powder. The cost of each round equaled the daily salary of 2,700 soldiers!
Fort Rinella is managed by Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna - the Malta Heritage Trust
Firing Howitzer Fort Rinella in Malta
Firing Howitzer at Fort Rinella in Malta
The British built the fort between 1878 and 1886, which stands above the shore east of the mouth of Grand Harbour, between Fort Ricassoli and Fort St. Rocco.
The fort was built to contain a single Armstrong 100-ton gun: a 450 mm rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth.The fort is modest in size as it was designed to operate and protect the single large gun, with its associated gun crew, magazines, bunkers, support machinery and the detachment of troops stationed within the fort to defend the installation.
The massive gun is far too heavy to be laid by hand, and the fort therefore contained a steam powered hydraulic system that traversed, elevated and depressed the gun, operated a pair of hydraulic powered loading and washing systems, and powered the shell lifts that moved the 2,000-pound shells and 450-pound black-powder charges from the magazines into the loading chambers.
Throughout the year, at 13.00pm, re-enactors dressed as 19th Century British soldiers provide a tour of the fort that combines lecture, demonstration and live re-enactment. This includes the firing, without shot, of a Victorian-era muzzle-loading fieldpiece.
Fort Rinella and The Armstrong 100 Ton Gun in Malta
See this amazing gun firing! When you go to Malta you must visit Fort Rinella and see for yourself the Armstrong 100 Ton Gun.
Fort Rinella Cannon Igniting, Malta
Fort Rinella, Kalkara, Malta, July 2010
Malta, Kalkara, Fort Rinella
Экскурсия на форт Ринелла
Malta. Fort Rinella. Grand Harbour.
Britterne byggede fortet mellem 1878 og 1886, som står over kysten øst for udmundingen af Grand Harbour , mellem Fort Ricassoli og Fort St. Rocco .
Fortet blev bygget til at indeholde en enkelt kanon, som stadig er på plads. Fortet var oprindelig en af et par, men parret Cambridge Battery nær Tigne , vest for Grand Harbour , der ikke længere eksisterer. Den britiske installeret et andet par kanoner til at forsvare Gibraltar , montering af en hver i Victoria batteri (1879) og Napier Magdalene batteri (1883), som ikke har Rinella s selvforsvar kapaciteter. I dag er kun to af disse kanoner tilbage, den ene ved Fort Rinella og én på Napier Magdalene Batteri.
The Trench. Fort Rinella (Malta). November 2014
Honouring those who gave their lives, fighting one hundred years ago, in the first world war. With their sacrifices they built up a better society for the following generations. In Fort Rinella we beleive, as they did, in our mission, bringing history back to life and protecting our heritage. This is our tribute to those heroes.
Armstrong 100 Ton Gun Firing at Fort Rinella Malta
Firing on 06/05/2012
Rifle,Musketry display Fort Rinella Malta
Rifle,Musketry demonstration Fort Rinella Malta.
The British built the fort between 1878 and 1886, which stands above the shore east of the mouth of Grand Harbour, between Fort Ricassoli and Fort St. Rocco.
The fort was built to contain a single Armstrong 100-ton gun: a 450 mm rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth.The fort is modest in size as it was designed to operate and protect the single large gun, with its associated gun crew, magazines, bunkers, support machinery and the detachment of troops stationed within the fort to defend the installation.
The massive gun is far too heavy to be laid by hand, and the fort therefore contained a steam powered hydraulic system that traversed, elevated and depressed the gun, operated a pair of hydraulic powered loading and washing systems, and powered the shell lifts that moved the 2,000-pound shells and 450-pound black-powder charges from the magazines into the loading chambers.
Throughout the year, at 13.00pm, re-enactors dressed as 19th Century British soldiers provide a tour of the fort that combines lecture, demonstration and live re-enactment. This includes the firing, without shot, of a Victorian-era muzzle-loading fieldpiece.
Zabbar to Kalkara, circular route
A circular hike from Zabbar to Kalkara passing by three forts - Ricasoli, Rinella and St. Rocco - and two cemeteries, one for cholera victims of 1837 and the naval cemetery on the way back to Zabbar.
Fort St. Rocco (1873) was the first flankless fort (or polygonal fort) built by the British in Malta.
Filmed on 15th July, 2018.
Music by Ennio Morricone, played on cello by Yo-Yo Ma.
MALTA FORT RINELLA FIRING HOWIITZER
Malta travel vlog, fort Rinella
Journey through Rinella bay,rinella frot and malta filim city
MALTA FILM STUDIO KALKARA
MALTA FILM STUDIO
Re-anctment war horses through the ages Rinella Kalkara Malta 2012 video assembled by Albert Attard
The war horses through the ages at Fort Rinella Malta
The horse show is about how the horse has been used through the ages as an great asset in warfare and covers Ancient Egypt,, Greek, Roman, Mediaval, Renaissance, Napoleonic, Victorian and the two World War eras.
Victorian cavalry drill, and 'tent pegging' at Fort Rinella
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In Fort Rinella. Kalkara, Malta, every day, they put on a show of cavalry drill. Here we see them perform a lance drill in late Victorian British uniforms. They then give a display of 'tent pegging' by holding a short competition between two riders, using both lance and sabre.
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Victorian cavalry drill, and 'tent pegging' at Fort Rinella
Sword fighting scene demonstration,display Fort Rinella - Malta
Fighting with swords display ,demonstration at Fort Rinella in Malta.
The British built the fort between 1878 and 1886, which stands above the shore east of the mouth of Grand Harbour, between Fort Ricassoli and Fort St. Rocco.
The fort was built to contain a single Armstrong 100-ton gun: a 450 mm rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth.The fort is modest in size as it was designed to operate and protect the single large gun, with its associated gun crew, magazines, bunkers, support machinery and the detachment of troops stationed within the fort to defend the installation.
The massive gun is far too heavy to be laid by hand, and the fort therefore contained a steam powered hydraulic system that traversed, elevated and depressed the gun, operated a pair of hydraulic powered loading and washing systems, and powered the shell lifts that moved the 2,000-pound shells and 450-pound black-powder charges from the magazines into the loading chambers.
Throughout the year, at 13.00pm, re-enactors dressed as 19th Century British soldiers provide a tour of the fort that combines lecture, demonstration and live re-enactment. This includes the firing, without shot, of a Victorian-era muzzle-loading fieldpiece.
The Armstrong 100 Ton Gun in Fort Rinella Malta now In HD.
Now in HD. See this amazing gun firing! When you go to Malta you must visit Fort Rinella and see for yourself the Armstrong 100 Ton Gun.
Malta Film Studio + Fort Rinella - DJI Phantom 3
Rinella Battery (Maltese: Batterija ta' Rinella) is a Victorian battery in Kalkara, Malta. It is commonly referred to as Fort Rinella (Maltese: Forti Rinella), although it was never classified as a fort while in use.[2] It contains one of two surviving Armstrong 100-ton guns.
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Fort Rinella and The Armstrong 100-ton Gun - Malta
Fort Rinella is a Victorian Fortification on the island of Malta. It was built by the British between 1878 and 1886 and stands above the shore east of the mouth of Grand Harbour, between Fort Ricassoli and Fort St Roca. The fort was built to contain a single Armstrong 17.72 inch rifled muzzle loading 102 ton gun, which is still in place.
The fort is modest in size since it was designed to operate and protect the single large gun, with its associated gun crew, magazines, bunkers, support machinery and the modest detachment of troops stationed within the fort to defend the installation.
The massive gun is far too heavy to be laid by hand, and the fort therefore contained a steam powered hydraulic system that traversed, elevated and depressed the gun, operated a pair of hydraulic powered loading and washing systems, and powered the shell lifts that moved the 2000 pound shells and 450 pound blackpowder charges from the magazines into the loading chambers. The gun was intended to operate at a rate of fire of a single shell every four minutes. The firing cycle was for the gun to be traversed and depressed until it aligned with one of loading casemates, with the barrel pushing aside an iron plate that normally closed the aperture in the casemate. The gun was then flushed with water to cool it, clean any debris and deposit from the barrel, and douse any remaining embers from the previous cartridge. The ramming mechanism then inserted and tamped a silk cartridge containing the propellant charge, which was followed by one of the range of shells the gun was adapted to fire. The loaded gun was then traversed and elevated using the hydraulic system, and fired by an electrical firing mechanism. The gun then slewed to the other casemate to repeat the loading process, while the first casemate was recharged from the deeper magazine.
The two separate loading casemates, each fed by an independent magazine, and the provision of man powered backup pumps for the hydraulic system, such that a team of 40 men could maintain the hydraulic pressure to operate the gun, would have allowed the fort to continue firing even if substantially damaged.
Though as originally built the inner faces of the emplacement were revetted with masonry, review of the forts defences after its completion identified this as a weakness, and the stone revetting was removed from most of the emplacement and replaced with plain earthworks, presumably to better absorb the energy of incoming shellfire. The revetting was retained around the loading casemates, as can also be seen in the image above.
The 100 ton guns were in active service for only 20 years, with all being withdrawn from active service by 1906, without ever firing a shot in anger.
After the Armstrong gun was retired from service Fort Rinella was used as a sighting point for the guns of Ricasoli Fort, and unfortunately at some point the now obsolete steam engine and hydraulic system were removed from Fort Rinella