An hour at the navy museum - Lots of pictures

[Arrrhalomynn]

While all other people went to the beach today, my girlfriend and I decided to take a look at the navy museum here in Gdynia. I took pictures of pretty much everything and since old weaponry is cool, I thought you people might be interested in it as well.

There's over 6 MB of pictures, so please be patient.

The descreptions with the pieces was very meager. Often not more than some technical data. I also didn't write down any information, so everything written by the pictures is done by heart (IF there's something written). I would also like to apologize for the state of the pictures. They were taken with a camera not really suited for taking picture (a funky webcam), so the quality isn't very good. The pictures are very small, sorry for that as well, but I don't have space to host more pictures. The quality of them is so low that a higher resolution wouldn't really improve the images anyway.

Really old guns







Russian Guns, these are the first, and also the newest, ones from the 2 pictures above.





Slightly less old guns with wheels



There's a plaque on this gun that says something about it having carried some high placed general around. I hope for him it was in a parade.






At the moment the museum is building a building, so the guns won't get wet anymore in the future (except when being cleaned). This meant that we couldn't check out these guns from close.

[Arrrhalomynn]

Mounted guns and stuff similair to that
Most of the guns were sawed off of navy ships. Even complete, huge installations were found quietly between the trees. Most of the guns in the pictures down here were taken from ships, but I'm not sure on all of them. Either way, they look cool.

The order is a bit messed up, so you might see the same gun twice or thrice.



























































This one comes from a submarine.

[Arrrhalomynn]

Flying things

A rocket.






I don't know what plane this is, but I would like to know.








This is from an American airplane that got shot down above sea in 1942 and was dug up in 1997.


I don't know what plane this is. But the big plane behind it is a bomber.










The aforementioned bomber.








This is a mighty cool mig.






Another rocket, I guess.












An incredibly awesome rocket installation.








Mines




Sorry about that.






Miscelaneous


These things were used for measuring distances. Don't ask me how it works.




These bombs are from the Schleswig-Holstein, the ship that started world war 2, when it sailed into Gdansk.


A sonar thing.


I think this is radar.




A super awesome torpedo installation.




A half open torpedo.


A closed torpedo.


Some rocket installations.










These things throw bombs into the sea, to kill sub marines.






A light to sign to other ships.

[shadytool]

damn cool pics Arrr!  what did that plaque on the barrel of the one gun say?  i think its the russian gun... of course you would have to know russian...

[Arrrhalomynn]

All I can make of that plaque is that the first one says 1833. There was no translation with it.

[shadytool]

is that your girlfriend in the red?

those planes are cool as hell!  i like the bomber.

[Arrrhalomynn]

Yep, that's her. Having a great time, as you can see

[shadytool]

lol
i see that.  

i jsut love these military museums, they have so much cool shit in them.
maybe i should go visit wright-patterson air force museum again.  havent been there since i worked on the base.  (we were remodeling the building that the F-22 was diesigned in).

[deadducks]

Very cool pics, I love stuff like this