Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships. In recent[when?] naval usage, a barbette is a protective...

Look up barbette in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement. Barbette may also refer to: HMAS Barbette (P 97),...

1973), stage name Barbette, was an American female impersonator, high-wire performer, and trapeze artist born in Texas. Barbette attained great popularity...

Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Barbette for the barbette HMS Barbette was the French privateer Vaillant, launched in 1801 that the...

Barbette Stanley Spaeth is an American academic who is an associate professor at College of William and Mary, and is an expert in Roman mythology. She...

HMAS Barbette (P 97) was an Attack-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The Attack class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian...

Barbette Mountain is 3,072-metre (10,079-foot) summit located on the shared border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Barbette Mountain is situated...

Paul Barbette (5 February 1620 in Strasbourg – buried 10 March 1665 in Amsterdam) was a celebrated Dutch physician. After finishing his medicine studies...

on low-angle barbette mountings. From 1919, 19 long-range two-gun batteries were built using the M1895 on an M1917 long-range barbette carriage. Almost...

mounted on the barbette, the fort's highest level, where they had wide angles of fire and could fire down on approaching ships. The barbette was also more...

Army-designed M1919 guns were built and deployed by 1927 in two-gun batteries on barbette carriages in the harbor defenses of Boston (Fort Duvall), New York City...

were mounted on three types of carriages—a front-pintle barbette carriage, a center-pintle barbette carriage, and a casemate carriage. All of these carriages...

design and had their main armament in barbettes, although the adoption of armoured, rotating gunhouses over the barbettes gradually led to them being called...

HDMS Helgoland was a coast defence barbette ironclad bult for the Royal Danish Navy in the late 1870s. The ship was decommissioned in 1907 and subsequently...

disappearing carriages or pedestal (a.k.a. barbette) mountings, and during World War II many were remounted on shielded barbette carriages. Most of the weapons not...

Mil Mi-24 gunship for the role. It carries a single gun in an undernose barbette, plus external loads carried on pylons beneath stub wings. In 1972, following...

Dalian Bay and barbettes for military use were built after that. By the end of the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, most of the barbettes were discarded...

He resided in Los Angeles, California. He was married to former actress Barbette Tweed, daughter of lawyer/civic leader Harrison Tweed. The couple had three...

active BCN 520 2 12-inch gun M1895 long-range barbette M1917 1944–1947 BCN 230 2 6-inch gun M1 shielded barbette M4 Not armed unnamed 4 155 mm gun M1918 towed...

Navy captured her in June 1805. The Navy took her into service as HMS Barbette but never commissioned her or fitted her for sea. It sold her for breaking...

barbette to abreast the rear main-gun barbette. It was 4 inches (102 mm) thick from there to the stern while the portion abreast the forward barbette...

appearance in this movie, which features an appearance by the famed aerialist Barbette. It is the first part of The Orphic Trilogy, which is continued in Orphée...

the Cerealia, along with the other eleven helper gods of Ceres. Spaeth, Barbette Stanley (2010). The Roman Goddess Ceres. University of Texas Press. p. 36...

Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. Routledge. Spaeth, Barbette Stanley (2013). The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions...

from shore emplacements. The barbette was lighter than the turret, needing less machinery and no roof armor. Some barbettes were stripped of their armor...

thinned to five inches abreast 'A' barbette. The upper belt was 5 inches thick amidships and extended forward to 'A' barbette, with a short 4-inch extension...

Terrible (1887) – stricken 1911. Hoche (1886) 10,820 tons, turrets & barbettes – target 1913. Marceau class 10,558–10,810 tons. Marceau (1887) – BU 1922...

gun barbette M4 1943–1948 Battery 121 2 16-inch (406 mm) Navy MkIIMI gun barbette M4 1943–1948 Pennington 2 16-inch (406 mm) howitzer M1920 barbette M1920...

[u.a.]: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780801854804. Spaeth, Barbette Stanley (2010). The Roman Goddess Ceres. University of Texas Press. p. 36...

barbette to the centre of 'Y' barbette. Oddly, it was reduced to 9 in (229 mm) abreast 'A' barbette. A 6 in (152 mm) extension ran from 'A' barbette forward...