Two Fifteen-inch Rodmans
From outside Fort Moultrie, two fifteen-inch (380 mm) Rodman guns.
Fort Moultrie is a brick coastal defense fort completed in 1809 to guard the entrance to Charleston Harbor. It's the third fort built at this location. The first was a wooden fort which decayed and the second fort was destroyed by a hurricane. Fort Moultrie was obsolete by the end of the American Civil War in 1865, but was modernized and retained as a military post until 1947. Now a historical relic and museum. Near Charleston, South Carolina. I visited this place on April 11, 2018.
Two Fifteen-inch Rodmans
From outside Fort Moultrie, two fifteen-inch (380 mm) Rodman guns.
Fort Moultrie is a brick coastal defense fort completed in 1809 to guard the entrance to Charleston Harbor. It's the third fort built at this location. The first was a wooden fort which decayed and the second fort was destroyed by a hurricane. Fort Moultrie was obsolete by the end of the American Civil War in 1865, but was modernized and retained as a military post until 1947. Now a historical relic and museum. Near Charleston, South Carolina. I visited this place on April 11, 2018.