A gun from the VIZCAYA in Columbia,
Tennessee
Contributed by Charles
Bugajsky
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for another of the VIZCAYA's 14 cm Hontoria Guns in Annapolis, Maryland
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of the VIZCAYA's 14 cm Hontoria Guns at West Point, New York
General:
The following images are of a gun which was taken
from
the wreckage of the Spanish Cruiser
VIZCAYA lost
at the the Battle of Santiago. The
gun
appears to be a 14 cm gun Hontoria quickfire gun, one of eight carried
by the vessel.
Today, the gun rests outside of the Columbia,
Tennessee
Municipal Building located at 310 West 7th Street inColumbia. The gun
is
almost across the street from the President James K. Polk ancestral
home
at 301 West 7th Street.
The Gun:
This is an image of the gun as seen from the front.
The gun as seen from the side, rear.
The inscription on the front if the gun shield. It reads:
"TROPHY
VISCAYA
SANTIAGO JULY 3, 1898"
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