Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1883 the British Government installed a single RML 17.72 inch gun at the battery by Rosia Bay that they named Napier of Magdala Battery after Field Marshal Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, who had served as Governor of Gibraltar from 1876 to 1883. Earlier, in 1879, they had mounted another such gun in Gibraltar at Victoria Battery. These two batteries, together with two similar ones in Malta at Cambridge Battery and Fort Rinella, were a response to the Italians having, in 1873, built the battleship Duilio, which was to receive four 100-ton Armstrong Guns of the same design. The gun at Napier of Magdala Battery was originally sited at Victoria Battery but the British moved it to Napier when the original gun there split during firing practice. The gun at Napier Battery received the nickname, "The Rockbuster". During World War II, the British Army stationed a battery of four 3.7" anti-aircraft guns at the site. These never fired a shot in anger, though in 1945 they almost fired upon a Junkers Ju 88 operated by Iberia Airlines that had wandered into Gibraltar's airspace while on a flight from Malaga to Tetouan.

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