Gun no 35 at Skansin

What is this? Surely not the logo of the Soviet space program?

There are only two, nos 35 and 42. Does anyone make any sense of the engraving?

I think I have heard something about these originally being ship guns, but I don't know.

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Whipper_snapper says:

The broad arrow was a 'War Department' sign in Britain.

If these guns are on the Faroe Islands then they MAY be two of HMS Hood's guns.

See: heima.olivant.fo/~styrheim/gallery/holmstrom. gun/holmstro... which I think shows one gun. COW stands for Coventry Ordnance Works and Holmstrom is the type of breech mechanism.

www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_55-50_mk1.htm for further details of these guns.
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Jan Egil Kristiansen says:

According to a sign at the entrance to the fort, they are from HMS Furious.
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Gun no 35 at Skansin

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