{"id":27208,"date":"2025-06-17T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/12-inch-siege-howitzer-1918-part-1-sample\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:16:07","slug":"12-inch-siege-howitzer-1918-part-1-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/12-inch-siege-howitzer-1918-part-1-sample\/","title":{"rendered":"12-inch Siege Howitzer 1918 (Part 1 &#8211; sample)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4hbqz_YtQ3M?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This is a short \u2018teaser\u2019 of my current project &#8211; to describe how it was possible to transport a 44 ton siege howitzer close to the front line trenches, assemble it without needing cranes &#8211; just manpower (and the occasional tractor winch).  A follow-on project will show how the gun was supplied with ammunition, loaded, aimed and fired, with details of the shells and fuzes.<\/p>\n<p>Progress is slow &#8211; I have to split my time between the animation and my garden and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>I have released a 9 minute preview that is available to paid-up Patreons, or anyone generous enough to \u2018buy me a coffee\u2019  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/vbbsmyt)\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/vbbsmyt)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>Handbook of the B.L. 12-Inch Hpwitzers Mark II on Siege Carriages, 1918<br \/>Imperial War Museum Film 218 &#8211; \u2018With Britain\u2019s Monster Guns in Action\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short \u2018teaser\u2019 of my current project &#8211; to describe how it was possible to transport a 44 ton siege howitzer close to the front line trenches, assemble it without needing cranes &#8211; just manpower (and the occasional tractor winch). A follow-on project will show how the gun was supplied with ammunition, loaded,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/12-inch-siege-howitzer-1918-part-1-sample\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12-inch Siege Howitzer 1918 (Part 1 &#8211; sample)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":27209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}