{"id":621,"date":"2018-02-09T23:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/tab-episode-14-15-inch-vickers-coastal-guns-la-mola-menorca\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:11:05","slug":"tab-episode-14-15-inch-vickers-coastal-guns-la-mola-menorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/tab-episode-14-15-inch-vickers-coastal-guns-la-mola-menorca\/","title":{"rendered":"TAB Episode 14: 15 Inch Vickers Coastal Guns &#8211; La Mola, Menorca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39G4ptM5I5I?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Last summer Matt had the chance to visit the vast Fortalesa Isabel II, which was built to defend the port of Mahon on the island of Menorca. One of the fort&#8217;s most impressive sights is its huge 15 inch gun battery. <\/p>\n<p>The battery was established in 1932, the massive guns were made by Vickers and could throw an 860kg shell up to 22 miles but the fort and its battery of two 15 inch guns never saw action. <\/p>\n<p>Technical Note: excuse some of the shakey footage, my DSLR is great for stills but not as good with video! I&#8217;m hoping to have a dedicated video camera soon, when I can afford one. Thanks for watching!   <\/p>\n<p>Check out our website <a href=\"https:\/\/armourersbench.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/armourersbench.com<\/a> for a full in-depth article on the history of the fort and the design and use of the 15 inch guns!<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed the video please consider supporting our work via Patreon, TAB is a viewer supported, non-monetised channel and any help is very much appreciated!<br \/>\nCheck out our Patreon page here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thearmourersbench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thearmourersbench<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where to find TAB:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/armourersbench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/armourersbench<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/user\/ArmourersBench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/imgur.com\/user\/ArmourersBench<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/DAjRSBc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/DAjRSBc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to like, share and subscribe and spread the word!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer Matt had the chance to visit the vast Fortalesa Isabel II, which was built to defend the port of Mahon on the island of Menorca. One of the fort&#8217;s most impressive sights is its huge 15 inch gun battery. The battery was established in 1932, the massive guns were made by Vickers and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/tab-episode-14-15-inch-vickers-coastal-guns-la-mola-menorca\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAB Episode 14: 15 Inch Vickers Coastal Guns &#8211; La Mola, Menorca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-621","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\/621","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14467,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/14467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}