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Hi all,
Summer holidays have arrived in the southern hemisphere and I have taken nice sunny pictures of some of the pieces displayed in the Naval Guns Museum located in the shore promenade in Viña del Mar, Chile, just in front of the relocated Navy War College.

The museum displays pieces from ex-USN ships sold to Chile after WW2 and from the ships that participated in the War of the Pacific between Chile, Bolivia and Peru from 1879 to 1884.

Unfortunately I’m lazy enough to not resample them for a single posting, so I´ll post one at a time.

This First one is a general view of the museum.

This second one is a quad 40/56 mm Boffors from one of the Brooklyns with childs playing arround

This is the explanation Plate on the mount, obviously is in spanish

This is a twin automatic 3/50 in from one of the Fletcher DDs with my eldest son posing

Same mounting in another angle

The corresponding plate of the twin 3 in guns

A 5/25 in also from the Brooklyns

I helped firing one of these on the O´Higgins as a very young cadet.

The 5 in mount plate, also in spanish,

My two youngsters serving a single 3/50 in, these were mounted on board the fleet and harbour Tugs

Slightly off topic, these are my kids on one of the 6 in secondary mounts of our beloved BB Almirante Latorre that served in the Home Fleet at Jutland as HMS Canada.

Latorre´s 6 in corresponding plate

One of the 2 40 pounders of Monitor Huascar who fought and was captured by Chile during the War of the Pacific on October 8th, 1879.

A triple 6 in mounts, witout the turret, of the brooklyns and atriple TLT from one of the Fletchers in the frontyard of the Naval War College.

I must say that a whole turrent with guns is displayed in the entrance of the Naval Base in Talcahuano

One of the Amstrong 8 in guns of one of the Battleships Almirante Blanco Encalada or Almirante Cochrane who fought in the War of the Pacific and in the Civil War of 1891

The entrance of the Naval War College

The ever present Tsunamy Warning System

That is all hope you found them interesting

Very good pics. Looks like it was great weather too!

Thank you for taking the time to share these. Great pics!

MikeS

Great pics.

Cool pics! [:)]