Although a great many articles have been written on the subject of Cape Town's noon gun (the. official terminology is 'time-gun') most of the writers have not had access to the Lion Battery Fort Record Book and the existance of more than one Cape Town time-gun has only recently been recorded. By 1807 a noon gun was fired regularly from the Imhoff Battery on the seaward side of the Castle.1 On 4 August 1902 the noon gun was fired from Lion Battery on Signal Hill for the first time.2 The battery was built because of fears of war with Russia and had been armed with two 9- inch Rifled Muzzle Loading guns by 1891. Lion Battery was remodelled in 1911.
CAPE TOWN'S TIME-GUNS
2012
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
Metadata by DOAJ is licensed under CC BY-SA 1.0
Cape Town's Olympic transport plan - Its developmental legacy
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998
|Cape Cornucopia- Wine and tank containers both spring from Cape Town's horn of plenty.
Online Contents | 1995
FEATURES - COVER - SOUTH AFRICA - Cape Town's lack of space causes repair problems
Online Contents | 1999