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A 6-inch pedestal-mounted deck gun could fire two types of rounds: a 105-pound armor-piercing round and a 90-pound high-explosive round. The model 1903-A2 guns at Fort Miles would have been mounted on barbette carriages inside three-sided heavy metal shields to protect the gun crew against incoming enemy fire. These guns were manually loaded, rapid-fire weapons. At Fort Miles, 6-inch guns were placed in Battery Hunter and Battery Herring. Each gun had a maximum firing range of more than 15 miles, required a crew of 25 to operate, and was used primarily as an anti-ship weapon.
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