-----------------+----------+-------------+----------+------- Fort or Battery. | R. Guns. | S. B. Guns. | Mortars. | Total. -----------------+----------+-------------+----------+------- Fort Silsileh | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 " Pharos | 8 | 37 | 4 | 49 " Adda | 5 | 14 | 5 | 24 Ras-el-Tin Lines | 9 | 30 | 10 | 49 Lighthouse Fort, | | | | or Ras-el-Tin | 6 | 28 | 3 | 37 Fort Saleh Aga | ... | 12 | ... | 12 Battery | ... | 4 | ... | 4 Fort Omuk Kubebe | 2 | 16 | 2 | 20 " Kamaria | ... | 5 | 1 | 6 Mex Sea Lines | ... | 24 | ... | 24 " Fort | 5 | 9 | 5 | 19 Fort Marabout | 3 | 8 | ... | 11 +----------+-------------+----------+------- TOTAL | 40 | 190 | 31 | 261 -----------------+----------+-------------+----------+------- The guns on board the ironclads are shewn in the following table:-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIFLED GUNS. -----------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------- SHIPS. | in. | in. | in. | in. | in. | in. | in. | pr. | pr. | Total. | 16 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 64 | 40 | -----------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------- Alexandra | | | 2 | 10 | | | | | | 12 Inflexible | 4 | | | | | | | | | 4 Superb | | | 16 | | | | | | 16 | Sultan | | | | 8 | 4 | | | | | 12 Temeraire | | | 4 | 4 | | | | | | 8 Invincible | | | | | 10 | | | 4 | | 14 Monarch | | 4 | | | 2 | | 1 | | | 7 Penelope | | | | | | 8 | | | 3 | 11 -----------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------- TOTAL | 4 | 4 | 6 | 38 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 84 -----------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------- This does not include the six to eight 20-pounder guns and eight to twelve machine guns carried by each vessel. Admiral Seymour's plan for the bombardment comprised two separate attacks: one by the _Sultan_, _Superb_, _Alexandra_, _Inflexible_, and _Temeraire_ from outside the breakwater, the other by the _Invincible_, _Monarch_, and _Penelope_ inside the reefs.
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