Landships II

Hello,

French Army send some big guns in Gallipoli:
-first, two 240 mm modèle 1884 Army coast gun on emergency land mount ("affût à échantignolles") but these powerful weapons had limited traverse and were returned in France in november 1915.
-two 138 mm modèle 1893 Navy guns and four 100 mm modèle 1893 Navy guns with good range and 360° traverse.
-four 24 cm modèle 1876 Army coast guns with their coast mounts with 360° traverse ("affût GPC" means "Guerre Pivot Central").
Note: caliber writed in cm, "centimètres", means that these guns were built in cast iron with steel tube and caliber writed in mm, "millimètres", is used for all steel built guns.
The old 24 cm modèle 1876 fired many shells in front of the french and british lines and also on turkish Forts of the Coast of Asia, the range of the 24 cm modèle 1876 was 12.900 meters.
The 138 mm and the 24 cm were all destroyed just before the re-embarking of january 1916, the guns fired shells yet the preceding day, some guns and shells were destroyed by their french crews and the last two 24 cm were destroyed by the last british soldiers, just before their re-embarking but the demolition charge of one 24 cm gun failed.The four 24 cm modèle 1876 are still in their 1915-1916 sites in Gallipoli.
See one very impressive photograph of one 24 cm modèle 1876 in action in my book "Les Canons de la Victoire-tome 3-Artillerie de Côte et Artillerie de Tranchée"-Editor "Histoire et Collections"-2010.
Yours sincerely,
Guy François.

One of Rob's photos is attached.

Are there any 1/72 models of these guns?