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Victoria Parade
Portland



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Victoria Parade
Portland



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Portland


The last event was the firing of the 80 lb RML Gun at Portland on St Barbara’s day which was also the 150th anniversary of the Royal Australian Artillery 4 December 2021. The Gun had not been fired for 30 years.


No future events planned at this point in time.




Port Fairy


1 January 2023 (New Year’s Day) Cannon firing 2.00 pm


Every Sunday in January 2023 Cannon firing 12.00 pm


Special firings such as Cannon salute to visiting vessels at various dates and times




Flagstaff Hill Warrnambool


2 July 2022: Children’s program 11.00 am, Cannon firing 12.00 pm


1 October 2022: Children’s program 11.00 am, Cannon firing 12.00 pm


29 October 2022: Cannon firing 12.00 pm


31 December 2022 (New Year’s Eve): Cannon firing Time TBA


7 January 2023: Children’s program 11.00 am, Cannon firing 12.00 pm


14 January 2023: Children’s program 11.00 am, Cannon firing 12.00 pm


11 March 2023: Cannon firing 12.00 pm


9 April 2023 (Easter Sunday): Multi Firings Times TBA



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Built on land gazetted for defence purposes in the 1840s, Portland Battery was constructed in 1889 to defend Victoria against a feared Russian invasion. Batteries were also constructed at Warrnambool and Port Fairy in 1887.The Battery closed in 1904. During World War II the Battery fortifications were used by the Volunteer Air Observer Corps to monitor the skies for enemy aircraft.
The Battery comprises a magazine, upper chamber, a parapet wall and three gun emplacements. In 1984 the Battery underwent a major restoration. The underground magazine and the lamp passage are not currently accessible to the public.


Our Collection
The site now contains three pieces of artillery - a 32 pounder smooth bore muzzle loading gun and a 68 pounder smooth bore muzzle loading gun which were both moved to the site as part of the restoration and an 80 pounder riffled muzzle loading gun which is original to the site.
This project is supported by the Australia Government’s Culture, Heritage and Arts Regional Tourism (CHART) Program




This project is supported by the Australia Government’s Culture, Heritage and Arts Regional Tourism (CHART) Program


Enquiries


Portland
Andrew Bryant
Email: info@portlandsignworks.com.au


Port Fairy
Marten Syme
Email: martange@bigpond.com


Flagstaff Hill, Warrnambool
Stephen Ivey
Email: sivey@warrnambool.vic.gov.au




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ABOUT
PORTLAND BATTERY


Built on land gazetted for defence purposes in the 1840s, Portland Battery was constructed in 1889 to defend Victoria against a feared Russian invasion. Batteries were also constructed at Warrnambool and Port Fairy in 1887.The Battery closed in 1904. During World War II the Battery fortifications were used by the Volunteer Air Observer Corps to monitor the skies for enemy aircraft.
The Battery comprises a magazine, upper chamber, a parapet wall and three gun emplacements. In 1984 the Battery underwent a major restoration. The underground magazine and the lamp passage are not currently accessible to the public.


Our Collection
The site now contains three pieces of artillery - a 32 pounder smooth bore muzzle loading gun and a 68 pounder smooth bore muzzle loading gun which were both moved to the site as part of the restoration and an 80 pounder riffled muzzle loading gun which is original to the site.




This project is supported by the Australia Government’s Culture, Heritage and Arts Regional Tourism (CHART) Program



EVENTS


Portland


The last event was the firing of the 80 lb RML Gun at Portland on St Barbara’s day which was also the 150th anniversary of the Royal Australian Artillery 4 December 2021. The Gun had not been fired for 30 years.


No future events planned at this point in time.



Port Fairy


1 January 2023 (New Year’s Day) Cannon firing 2.00 pm


Every Sunday in January 2023 Cannon firing 12.00 pm


Special firings such as Cannon salute to visiting vessels at various dates and times



Flagstaff Hill, Warrnambool


2 July 2022: Children’s program 11.00 am, Cannon firing 12.00 pm


1 October 2022: Children’s program 11.00 am, Cannon firing 12.00 pm


29 October 2022: Cannon firing 12.00 pm


31 December 2022 (New Year’s Eve): Cannon firing Time TBA


7 January 2023: Children’s program 11.00 am, Cannon firing 12.00 pm


14 January 2023: Children’s program 11.00 am, Cannon firing 12.00 pm


11 March 2023: Cannon firing 12.00 pm


9 April 2023 (Easter Sunday): Multi Firings Times TBA


ENQUIRIES


Portland
Andrew Bryant
Email: info@portlandsignworks.com.au


Port Fairy
Marten Syme
Email: martange@bigpond.com


Flagstaff Hill Warrnambool
Stephen Ivey
Email: sivey@warrnambool.vic.gov.au
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Who manned the Battery?


The first volunteer military unit was formed in 1859 and disbanded in 1863. The Royal Victorian Volunteer Artillery was formed in 1866 and disbanded in 1884. The Portland Battery 2nd Brigade of the Victorian Garrison Artillery was then formed as a part time, paid volunteer militia which serviced and operated the guns of the battery until it closed in 1904.



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Built into the concrete wall around the gun emplacement are a number of shallow recesses for lamps and wood lined cupboards for cartridges.
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The Portland fortifications located at Battery Point included an underground concrete magazine above which is a large, grassed earth rampart and a concrete gun emplacement. Wooden doors marked ‘MAGAZINE’ and ‘LAMP PASSAGE’ lead into separate foyers. Ladders lead down through vertical shafts to the magazine chamber and to the lamp passage parallel to it, from which the magazine was lit. This meant that there was a careful separation of the munitions from sources of ignition.
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Built into the concrete wall around the gun emplacement are a number of shallow recesses for lamps and wood lined cupboards for cartridges.


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The Portland fortifications located at Battery Point included an underground concrete magazine above which is a large, grassed earth rampart and a concrete gun emplacement. Wooden doors marked ‘MAGAZINE’ and ‘LAMP PASSAGE’ lead into separate foyers. Ladders lead down through vertical shafts to the magazine chamber and to the lamp passage parallel to it, from which the magazine was lit. This meant that there was a careful separation of the munitions from sources of ignition.



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Tools


Different tools would be stored in the Battery for use by the militia. The tools would assist the firing process and ranged from implements to help push down the gunpowder into the cannon through to those which would help to retrieve unspent remnants and debris from the cannon after a firing.
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Projectiles


The Armstrong 80lb rifled muzzle loader had a projectile which weighed 80lb (36kg). The gunpowder was standardised at 20lb per firing. The gunpowder filled silk bag, then the 80lb projectile were manually lifted onto the loader cradle, then ram rodded into position. Later, bigger cannons, needed a small crane to do the lifting, but in 1866, the 25 Armstrong 80lb cannons which were made especially for Victoria and South Australia, and were the most advanced cannons made at that time, required strong gunners to do the lifting and ramming.
The 80lb RML cannon, the projectile is 15″ / 380mm long, and just under 6.3″ diameter. The barrel bore is 6.3″ diameter, and to cope with heat expansion the projectile must have some “windage” (a gap) to avoid jamming. The 1866 projectile has a pointy end, and a rounded rear, which is relatively aerodynamic, and similar to the form used in many modern guns.
Attached to the rear of the projectile is a (dark shaded) copper disk, which expands into the rifling grooves after firing, and further reduces the windage, and causes the projectile to rotate. The copper disk separates from the projectile after they leave the barrel, and it falls to earth. The best examples of the copper “gas checks” have been retrieved from the sea, in front of shore batteries where these cannons were located.
Before gas checks were introduced, the projectiles had copper studs attached to their exterior. The studs fitted into the rifling grooves. The studs were effective at causing the projectile to spin, but they caused rapid wear of the cannon barrel, excessive drag and lower muzzle velocity of the projectile, and were slower to load. The 80lb RML’s would have used studded projectiles until mid 1880’s, and then changed to gas check projectiles. instructions were issued then that studded projectiles should not be used.)


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Projectiles


The Armstrong 80lb rifled muzzle loader had a projectile which weighed 80lb (36kg). The gunpowder was standardised at 20lb per firing. The gunpowder filled silk bag, then the 80lb projectile were manually lifted onto the loader cradle, then ram rodded into position. Later, bigger cannons, needed a small crane to do the lifting, but in 1866, the 25 Armstrong 80lb cannons which were made especially for Victoria and South Australia, and were the most advanced cannons made at that time, required strong gunners to do the lifting and ramming.
The 80lb RML cannon, the projectile is 15″ / 380mm long, and just under 6.3″ diameter. The barrel bore is 6.3″ diameter, and to cope with heat expansion the projectile must have some “windage” (a gap) to avoid jamming. The 1866 projectile has a pointy end, and a rounded rear, which is relatively aerodynamic, and similar to the form used in many modern guns.
Attached to the rear of the projectile is a (dark shaded) copper disk, which expands into the rifling grooves after firing, and further reduces the windage, and causes the projectile to rotate. The copper disk separates from the projectile after they leave the barrel, and it falls to earth. The best examples of the copper “gas checks” have been retrieved from the sea, in front of shore batteries where these cannons were located.
Before gas checks were introduced, the projectiles had copper studs attached to their exterior. The studs fitted into the rifling grooves. The studs were effective at causing the projectile to spin, but they caused rapid wear of the cannon barrel, excessive drag and lower muzzle velocity of the projectile, and were slower to load. The 80lb RML’s would have used studded projectiles until mid 1880’s, and then changed to gas check projectiles. instructions were issued then that studded projectiles should not be used.)


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Projectiles


The Armstrong 80lb rifled muzzle loader had a projectile which weighed 80lb (36kg). The gunpowder was standardised at 20lb per firing. The gunpowder filled silk bag, then the 80lb projectile were manually lifted onto the loader cradle, then ram rodded into position. Later, bigger cannons, needed a small crane to do the lifting, but in 1866, the 25 Armstrong 80lb cannons which were made especially for Victoria and South Australia, and were the most advanced cannons made at that time, required strong gunners to do the lifting and ramming.
The 80lb RML cannon, the projectile is 15″ / 380mm long, and just under 6.3″ diameter. The barrel bore is 6.3″ diameter, and to cope with heat expansion the projectile must have some “windage” (a gap) to avoid jamming. The 1866 projectile has a pointy end, and a rounded rear, which is relatively aerodynamic, and similar to the form used in many modern guns.
Attached to the rear of the projectile is a (dark shaded) copper disk, which expands into the rifling grooves after firing, and further reduces the windage, and causes the projectile to rotate. The copper disk separates from the projectile after they leave the barrel, and it falls to earth. The best examples of the copper “gas checks” have been retrieved from the sea, in front of shore batteries where these cannons were located.
Before gas checks were introduced, the projectiles had copper studs attached to their exterior. The studs fitted into the rifling grooves. The studs were effective at causing the projectile to spin, but they caused rapid wear of the cannon barrel, excessive drag and lower muzzle velocity of the projectile, and were slower to load. The 80lb RML’s would have used studded projectiles until mid 1880’s, and then changed to gas check projectiles. instructions were issued then that studded projectiles should not be used.)


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Who manned the Battery?


The first volunteer military unit was formed in 1859 and disbanded in 1863. The Royal Victorian Volunteer Artillery was formed in 1866 and disbanded in 1884. The Portland Battery 2nd Brigade of the Victorian Garrison Artillery was then formed as a part time, paid volunteer militia which serviced and operated the guns of the battery until it closed in 1904.



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Tools


Different tools would be stored in the Battery for use by the militia. The tools would assist the firing process and ranged from implements to help push down the gunpowder into the cannon through to those which would help to retrieve unspent remnants and debris from the cannon after a firing.
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