tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768273561705178788.post6583631023883344810..comments2024-03-16T16:32:29.320+01:00Comments on #Brighton Bits: Hove Coast Guard Station - then & now (not)quedulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768273561705178788.post-25224421372147275232013-06-22T15:49:50.134+02:002013-06-22T15:49:50.134+02:00The Hove Battery (or at least the parade ground be...The Hove Battery (or at least the parade ground behind it) was the last known home of one of the guns of the SMS Koenigsberg, a German WW1 cruiser that took refuge and was eventually scuttled in the Rufiji delta in what is now Tanzania. All 10 guns were removed put on frames and used with the German forces in East Africa, being captured/destroyed at various points. Post WW1, one of these guns found its way to London; it was given to RNVR Hove some time in the 1920s due lack of storage space in London: there is a photo of it in situ in the early 30s, but nothing thereafter. Not the sort of thing you could hide easily: does anyone know what happened to it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com