What was the Royal Navy's biggest landscape-reshaping gunnery project?
Short answerCopenhagen and Alexandria are major candidates, but generations of practice fire most literally reshaped small British target islands.
NotesJoint operations such as the Normandy bombardment are harder to attribute to the Royal Navy alone. Copenhagen and Alexandria are major urban and harbour candidates, while repeated practice fire provides the most literal answer. Small islands off Britain, especially near Wales, served as gunnery targets across generations and changed visibly between photographs from about 1900 and the present. The islands are not named in the discussion.