Comments on: Review: Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower, Gosport https://mechtraveller.com/2019/06/review-explosion-museum-of-naval-firepower-gosport/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 01 May 2026 17:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/06/review-explosion-museum-of-naval-firepower-gosport/#comment-3384 Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:03:37 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4862#comment-3384 Hmmm, good question. I wasn’t really looking closely for that, but my memory is that some breeches had clearly been sealed. Some of the guns had their caps in place, so hard to know if they were plugged. Others looked un-touched but could have been deep plugged. Maybe there’s a National Museum of the Royal Navy curator/expat who can answer….

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Are museum pieces such as cannon, heavy machine guns and/or AAA pieces live? In other words do they retain an unmolested breech and barrel, or are they plugged and cut?

Just curious, several museums in Germany have unmolested weapons in them.

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