RAISING 38-TON GUN FROM MUD. 
DIARY OF OPERATIONS, 
BY 
CAPTAIN H. SOAMES, H.A. 
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At Clift’e Lort, on Monday, 14th May, 1877, the barge “ Magog ,” 
landed the gun on to a railway, which subsided^ and deposited the gun 
in mud. 
On Tuesday, 22nd, Captain Soames and 40 men arrived from 
Sheerness, to assist the detachment who were at Cliffe, under Lieut; 
Knight, R.A., to raise it. 
On Wednesday, 23rd, the gun was lying about 3' from the 
remains of the tramway; the upper surface of the gun being about 
2' below the surface of the mud. 
The mud had been dug away on one side, and the ground sloped 
towards a tramway which lay parallel to the gun, and about 25 yds. 
from it. 
The left trunnion was much the higher; but in consequence of a 
hole having been dug under the right trunnion, in the hopes of 
Pig. 1. 
LEVEL OE saltings, ordinary string tide. 
