Seaman from HMS Victory (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) introduced a further obstacle in the form of a bridge, too narrow for the guns to be hauled over in the usual manner.The following year, the Tournament was relocated to Olympia in West London. At the evening performances, The Royal Navy Field Battery Display was carried out as follows: The Evening performance saw the choreographed display replaced by more competition runs sometime before 1928, possibly when the two other trophies were introduced. In between is the rifled towed mortar; this weapon (usually in 120 mm calibre) is light enough to be towed by a truck or SUV, has a range of over 7.5km and fires a projectile comparable in destructive power to a 152 mm/155 mm artillery shell. Play it now! The Royal Navy Field Gun competition was contested by teams from the Royal Naval commands of Portsmouth, Devonport and the Fleet Air Arm (although teams from Chatham and the Royal Marines have also competed). Sadly, due to Government cuts this year was the last year of the Royal Tournament as everybody knows it and the final time anyone will ever run the gun. A field gun is a field artillery piece. 'These guys are giving up three-and-a-half hours a day, six days a week for eight weeks and they are utterly dedicated,' he says proudly, adding that the 'guys' also include a woman. The collapsing sheer legs killed him. This is called: Out, Back and Home. The guns and limbers were then dismantled and carried to the top of a ramp on the home side of a 28-foot (8.5m) chasm. The average time for the "Run Home" was 21 seconds. On their return home, the sailors from the Naval Brigade paraded their guns through London and appeared at the Royal Naval and Military Tournament at the Agricultural Hall, Islington. And so the Field Gun race has carried on, kept alive by more than 20 volunteer crews. The course was then negotiated in the opposite direction with the winner being the first crew to cross the original start line. In the old days, officers were excluded because they could not take orders from lower ranks. The "Command" format, negotiating walls and a chasm, was held annually at the Royal Tournament in London solely as a public display and as recruitment purposes from 1907 until 1999, apart from the periods during the World Wars. Both Gun Wheels are shifted. At each performance of the Royal Tournament, two crews competed to transport a 12pounder field gun and limber over a series of obstacles. Only two crews run during each performance. 1907 - the first competition was held, two crews of eighteen, coming from Portsmouth, Devonport and Chatham, competed at each afternoon performance (a display similar to the original was put on for each evening performance), as follows: The two Ramps were placed 7 6 apart, and the men had to pass the gun and limber over the chasm without the use of any other appliances! The remainder of the gun carriages' wheels and limbers are pulled through a hole in the second wall, called the enemy wall. ", Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.
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