203 (Elswick) Battery Royal Artillery is a part of 101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery, an artillery regiment of the British Army. Formed on...
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Regulations 1975 para 8.001. Royal Horse Artillery H Battery (Ramsay's Troop) V Parachute Battery Royal Artillery 15 (HQ) Battery 16 Battery (Sandham's Company)...
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BL 5.5-inch medium gun (category Artillery of the United Kingdom)
War Museum Duxford. Outside 47 Regt Royal Artillery lines Larkhill. Outside 203 (Elswick) Battery Royal Artillery lines, Blyth, Northumberland. Newhaven...
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Headquarters, at Napier Armoury, Gateshead 203 (Elswick) Battery, in Blyth 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery, in Kingston Park, Newcastle upon Tyne Hexham...
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QF 6-inch naval gun (redirect from Elswick 6 inch naval gun)
Company QF pattern 6-inch (150 mm) guns used on contemporary Royal Navy battleships. The Elswick export designation for guns sold to Italy and Japan was Pattern...
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BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun (category Coastal artillery)
South Africa on a disappearing mount. Another four guns manufactured by Elswick Ordnance Company survive, mounted in turrets. The 9.2-inch Mk XI gun introduced...
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QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun (category Coastal artillery)
as the "Elswick Battery" and were manned by men from Elswick, recruited by 1st Northumberland Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers). The Elswick guns served...
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for Brigade HQ) 203 (Elswick) Battery, in Blyth (6 x M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems) 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery, in South Shields...
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Artillery) Battery, Nottingham 101 (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery - Artillery reconnaissance and MLRS Regimental Headquarters 203 (Elswick) Battery Royal...
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with 26th Regiment Royal Artillery Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, at Napier Armoury, Gateshead 203 (Elswick) Battery, in Blyth 204 (Tyneside...
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Shell (projectile) (redirect from Artillery shell)
government to design a new piece of artillery. Production started in 1855 at the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. The piece was...
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guns would prove most useful. Some designs had an intermediate battery of 8-inch (203 mm) guns. Serious proposals for an all-big-gun armament were circulated...
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Glossary of British ordnance terms (redirect from Recuperator (artillery))
Early British Elswick breechloaders in the 1880s used a steel "cup" obturation method. This was quickly superseded in guns designed by the Royal Gun Factory...
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QF 18-pounder gun (category World War I artillery of the United Kingdom)
field gun of the First World War-era. It formed the backbone of the Royal Field Artillery during the war, and was produced in large numbers. It was used by...
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5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment (redirect from 581st (5th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery)
Sons & Co. agricultural engineering works and the Barton men from the Elswick Hopper cycle works. The volunteer battalions of the Lincolnshire Regiment...
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inferior to guns mounted in contemporary foreign ships, or mounting the new Elswick BL 16.25-inch gun. Although contemporary guns of 12 inches calibre were...
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BL 8-inch Mk I – VII naval gun (category 203 mm artillery)
heavy cruisers with the largest gun allowed by the Treaty. In the interim Elswick Ordnance continued to develop 8-inch guns in 40 calibre and 45-calibre...
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German naval artillery guns developed in the 1870s. Before World War I, the gun was used on warships of the Imperial German Navy, the Royal Netherlands...
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Torpedo (section Electric batteries)
propellant adds more gas to drive the engine. The earliest form was the "Elswick” heater as patented by Armstrong Whitworth in 1904. The device was demonstrated...
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shipyard at Elswick, in Britain, owned by Armstrong, she inspired a group of protected cruisers produced in the same yard and known as the "Elswick cruisers"...
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Gorgon-class monitor (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
August 1914, both ships were under construction at Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Nidaros had already been launched and Bjørgvin was launched only days...
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south and rain showers. At 1:00 p.m. Friedrichshafen FF.29 seaplane no. 203 from I. Seeflieger-Abteilung, carrying four 4.4 lb (2 kg) bombs, flown by...
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"LCT-2191 of the Royal Navy". uboat.net. Retrieved 6 June 2013. "LCT-2283 of the Royal Navy". Uboat. Retrieved 6 June 2013. "MTB 248 of the Royal Navy". Uboat...
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