64-pdr Mk-III RML

Bore: 6.3-inch (RML)

Range: 4,000 yards

In service: 1885-1904 (some remained on site after this)

Number in Service: 11

Imported in 1878, these guns were purchased following a war scare. When the fuss had died down, the guns were put in storage rather then being emplaced. With a new war scare in 1885, they were quickly put into place. Three were allocated to Auckland, three to Dunedin, two to Lyttelton and three to Wellington. They were declared obsolete in 1904, but several remained in their gun pits into the 1930s. An example can be seen at Albert Park in Auckland, two more intact examples are on private land near Oamaru, and gun barrels can be found at Oamaru and Lyttelton Museum.

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Description: Photo of the temporary emplacement that was first built at Fort Buckley.

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Description: One of the gun emplacements at Fort Buckley, 1886

Reference: Sixty four pound gun at Fort Buckley, Kaiwharawhara, Wellington. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/1-025892-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22868799

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Description: Photo of Fort Resolution used in the Auckland Star in 1931

Reference: Papers Past - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19311023.2.104.8

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Description: Fort Resolution, circa 1886

Reference: Hocken Library: https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/1373

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Description: Fort Resolution, circa 1886

Reference: Auckland War Memorial Museum: Fort Resolution, Auckland,Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911, photographer,1860-1880,PH-ALB-245 (https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_library-photography-58570)