A 128-ton historic gun is to be moved from Fort Victoria to a new location at the Royal Naval Dockyard.

As part of the pre-construction phase for the new Park Hyatt Development, representatives from Bazarian International Financial Associates and the Government have agreed to move the former British Army battery.

It will be dismantled by a team led by Dr. Edward Harris, Consultant and Executive Director of the Bermuda Maritime Museum, and reassembled close to the entrance of Dockyard on the lower level of the Land Front southwest of Casemate Barracks.

The project, financed by Carl Bazarian, will take several weeks to complete and will draw on local and international expertise to ensure that the historic weaponry is properly reinstated in the West End.

As the gun was located close to the entrance of the former Club Med Hotel, careful planning was required to ensure that it was not damaged as a result of the demolition last September.

In order to make way for the new development, a consortium including the Department of Parks, the Ministry of Works and Engineering, the West End Development Corporation, the Bermuda Maritime Museum and Bazarian International have worked on finding a suitable new location.

Historically, the 9.2 ins breech loader was the heaviest British gun ever used in Bermuda and was brought into service in the late 1800s and was in use right through to the end of coastal defence in 1957.

Today, there are only nine known examples of this gun still in existence — a small remainder of the 282 that were emplaced around the world.