The RML 7-inch guns were various designs of medium-sized rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm small to medium-sized British warships in the late 19th...
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The RML 7-inch Armstrong Gun was a rifled muzzle loading gun. It was an export version of the British Royal Navy's RML 7-inch gun. The RML 7-inch Armstrong...
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RML 16-inch 80-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns intended to give the largest British battleships parity with the large guns being mounted...
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The RML 9-inch Armstrong Gun was a rifled muzzle loading gun, used in substantial numbers by the Dutch navy, the Spanish Navy, and other navies. It should...
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The RML 12.5-inch guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns designed for British battleships and were also employed for coast defence. The gun originated...
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6-pounder 2.5-inch (64 mm) gun of 3 long hundredweight (340 lb; 150 kg), which had proved too heavy for a mountain gun. Several Mks of 7-pounder RML of 2 long...
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The Ordnance RML 2.5-inch mountain gun was a British rifled muzzle-loading mountain gun of the late 19th century designed to be broken down into four loads...
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The RML 9-inch guns Mark I – Mark VI were large rifled muzzle-loading guns of the 1860s used as primary armament on smaller British ironclad battleships...
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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,...
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The RML 10-inch guns Mk I – Mk II were large rifled muzzle-loading guns designed for British battleships and monitors in the 1860s to 1880s. They were...
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The British RML 8-inch 9-ton guns Mark I – Mark III were medium rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm smaller ironclad warships and coast defence batteries...
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RML 12-inch 35-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns used as primary armament on British battleships of the 1870s. They were the longer and more...
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RML 11-inch 25-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns used as primary armament on British battleships and for coastal defence. They were effectively...
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The RML 12-inch 25-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns of mid-late 1800s used as primary armament on British ironclad turret battleships and...
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68-pounders, but they were instead completed with a RML 7 inch gun and a RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun. On land the 68-pounder was used extensively in British...
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The Armstrong RBL 7-inch gun, also known as the 110-pounder, was a heavy caliber Armstrong gun, an early type of rifled breechloader. William Armstrong's...
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naval gun BL 7.5 inch Mk I naval gun RML 7 inch gun RBL 7 inch Armstrong gun BL 6 inch Mk VII naval gun BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval gun BL 6 inch Mk XXII...
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The QF 4.7-inch gun Mks I, II, III, and IV were a family of British quick-firing 4.724-inch (120 mm) naval and coast defence guns of the late 1880s and...
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The RML 64-pounder 64 cwt gun is a Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) naval, field or fortification artillery gun manufactured in England in the 19th century...
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Pacific (The "Russian scares"). A number of guns mounted on carriages from obsolete RML 40 pounder guns accompanied the British siege train (heavy artillery)...
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Muzzleloader (redirect from Muzzle-loading gun)
(gun-howitzer) ML 8 inch shell gun 68-pounder gun Parrott rifle 70 pounder Whitworth RML 68-pounder 64 cwt gun RML 7 inch gun 68-pounder Lancaster gun...
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version of the successful 8-inch howitzer that could be carried by the existing 40-pounder gun carriage. By 1880, the RML 6.3 in (16 cm) was superseded...
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The BL 6-inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy travelling carriage in 1915...
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ammunition that revolutionised the performance of RML heavy guns. The first generation of RML heavy guns began entering service in about 1865. They all had...
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This is a list of naval guns of all countries ordered by caliber. List of artillery List of the largest cannon by caliber Glossary of British ordnance...
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(Furthermore, gunners could clear a misfire from the breech; when the RML 17.72 inch gun at Napier of Magdala Battery at Gibraltar misfired, a gunner had to...
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The RML 64-pounder 71 cwt guns (converted) were British rifled muzzle-loading guns converted from obsolete smoothbore 8-inch 65 cwt shell guns in the 1860s-1870s...
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12-pounder 12-cwt gun (Quick-Firing) (abbreviated as Q.F. 12-pdr. [12-cwt.]) was a common, versatile 3-inch (76.2 mm) calibre naval gun introduced in 1894...
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The RML 8-inch howitzer was a British Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) Howitzer manufactured in England in the 19th century, which fired a projectile weighing...
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The BL 9.2-inch Mk IX and Mk X guns were British breech loading 9.2-inch (234 mm) guns of 46.7 calibre, in service from 1899 to the 1950s as naval and...
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