the two batteries in Gibraltar to mount a 100-ton gun. Construction of the battery began in December 1878 on the right flank of an earlier battery, also...

The 100-ton gun (also known as the Armstrong 100-ton gun) was a 17.72-inch (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company,...

an Armstrong 100-ton gun, which survives; the only other surviving gun is at the Napier of Magdala Battery, Gibraltar. The Rinella Battery was modestly...

Lodge Battery from the south. It contains one of two surviving Armstrong 100-ton guns. In 1883 the British Government installed a single 100-ton gun: a 450 mm...

as a fort while in use. It originally contained an Armstrong 100-ton gun. Cambridge Battery was built by the British between 1878 and 1886 above the shore...

armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. From the Middle Ages until World War II,...

was decided to enlarge them to take the 16.25 inch (413 mm), 110-ton gun. Similar guns had been supplied by the manufacturer, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth...

Cerberus Victoria, Australia Mark II gun No.35 at Parson's Lodge Battery, Gibraltar Mark II gun no.38 at York Redoubt, Halifax, Canada Mark II gun No. 67...

guns in 1900. In 1878 a new battery, also called Victoria Battery, was constructed on the right flank of the earlier battery to house a 100 ton gun....

were also called to the scene. Victoria was lightened by removing 1,253 long tons (1,273 t), including 475 long tons (483 t) of coal thrown overboard...

Angle Fire Mountings and Batteries" at Victorian Forts website " Handbook for the 9-inch rifled muzzle-loading gun of 12-tons Marks I to VIc", 1894, London...

Australian shot of WWII at Fort Nepean, Victoria Mk VII gun dated 1902 at Ile aux Aigrettes, Mauritius [1] Momi, Vuda, Batteries, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. One of...

599 long tons) at full load. All five ships were armed with a main battery of two 21-centimeter (8.3 in) guns and eight 15 cm (5.9 in) guns. The first...

Old Fort Road, Durban; 125th (Transvaal) Siege Battery near the Union Buildings, Pretoria. These guns are being restored by the Gunner's Association of...

Rinella Battery in Malta.) The weapon was one of two 100-ton guns that Gibraltar received in the late 19th century. The British installed one at Victoria Battery...

Library of Victoria handbook for the 4.7-inch Q.F. gun (heavy batteries), gun drill, 1915 at State Library of Victoria Gun drill for 4.7-inch Q.F. gun (land...

position on a Boer gun at 15,000 yd (14,000 m) at 28° elevation and falling 200 yd (180 m) short. The 7-ton weight (compared to the 2½ tons of the Boer 155 mm...

muzzle velocity of 1,960 feet per second. This brought the gun weight up to 100 cwt (5 tons). Mk IV incorporated the improvements to Mk III. Mk VI differed...

quadruple gun turrets to keep the displacement under the 30,000-ton limit. Another suggested alternative was to use six 38 cm (15 in) guns in twin turrets...

ironclad) and Victoria (a small monitor armed with a single 68-pdr gun), as well as two British-built ironclads: Independencia, a centre-battery ship, and...

Westgarth / Northcote, Victoria, Australia A pair of Mk VII guns at Kangaroo Battery, Rosny, Tasmania, Australia (INCORRECT, these guns are 8in RML, not BL)...

HSwMS Gustaf V: 7,125 tons standard 7,633 tons full load 7,120 tons - Drottning Victoria - Jane's Fighting Ships 1938 7,275 tons - Gustaf V - Jane's Fighting...

War II oilers like USS Big Horn, USS Victoria and USS Pasig Four two-gun batteries of 4″/50-caliber ex-Navy guns were emplaced on the North Shore of Oahu...

armoured gun shields for the barbette-mounted main battery guns. The ships were armed with a main battery of four BL 12-inch Mark VIII guns, the first...

some Mk XII guns were used in emergency coast defense batteries. Ordinary Seaman John Henry Carless was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism...

battery of 12-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, the 54-gun ship was superseded by a 50-gun ship with a main battery of 18-pounder guns...

An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England...

their guns' range. To prevent this, the British requested that four 100-ton guns be built. Two of these were installed in Malta, and Cambridge Battery and...

power of the main battery with the addition of a third triple turret. This was also the view of the Kriegsmarine, which saw the 19,000-ton design as being...

not only Princess Anne's Battery, but also Flat Bastion Magazine, Parson's Lodge Battery, Witham's Cemetery, and the 100 ton gun. In May 2011, the Gibraltar...