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Salvator-Dormus M1893

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356: 352:. Although secondary sources often cite the gun needing a stationary mounting limited to ships and fortifications, this machine gun had both a tripod and landing carriage mounting as evidenced by period photographs. It appears but is not yet confirmed that the mounting used in the successful defense at Peking during the Boxer Rebellion was a landing carriage mount with a shield. Although referred to as a "Maxim" gun, the 1893 could have easily been mistaken for such due to its brass water jacket. A 1901 photograph below shows the gun with such a brass water jacket on a light landing carriage with ammunition boxes mounted on the carriage, typical of Naval landing carriage mountings. 132: 29: 108: 355: 401: 359:
This photograph shows the Salvator Dormus 1893 Machine gun in its optimum configuration before changes made in 1902 with the new model. This gun on a landing carriage and shield like this was most likely the configuration used by the Austro-Hungarian bluejackets (sailors) from the Cruiser Zenta
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during the defense of siege of the Peking Legations in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Note the chargers lying on the ground for the top mounted fixed magazine and ammunition boxes on the carriage which was typical of naval machine gun landing carriages of the pre-WWI era.
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United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902, "Notes of Military Interest for 1901, Issue 36", page 129
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with an oil lubrication device. There was also a pendulum adjustment in the trigger mechanism that allowed the operator to select the cyclic
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Fowler, W., Sweeny, P. (2007, 2011). "The World Encyclopedia of Rifles and Machine Guns", JG Press
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and used during the successful 1900 defence of the Austro-Hungarian Embassy in
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One of these machine guns was taken to Peking by sailors from the
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and Count George von Dormus and was manufactured by Škoda Works
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Heavy machine gun
Austria-Hungary
Boxer Rebellion
World War I
Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria
Georg von Dormus
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Škoda Works
Barrel
Cartridge
8x50mmR
Action
Rate of fire
heavy machine gun
Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria
Plzeň
water-cooled
rate of fire
Maxim gun
Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
SMS Zenta

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