• Thumbnail for RML 10-inch 18-ton gun
    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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    time and got a lot of media attention. It was a 17.72-inch (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division...
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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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  • Thumbnail for RML 9-inch 12-ton gun
    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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    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 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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  • Thumbnail for RML 7-inch gun
    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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  • Thumbnail for RML 12-inch 35-ton gun
    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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  • Thumbnail for RML 12-inch 25-ton gun
    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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  • Thumbnail for RML 12.5-inch 38-ton gun
    originated from a desire for a longer 12 in (30 cm) gun than the existing RML 12-inch 35-ton gun. Experiments in 1874 with both 12 in (30 cm) and 12.5 in...
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    be confused with the RML 9-inch 12-ton gun, used in the British Royal Navy. The United Kingdom would adhere to smooth bore guns for a rather long time...
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  • 25 ton gun RML 10 inch 18 ton gun BL 10 inch Mk I-IV Vickers 10 inch /45 naval gun EOC 10 inch /45 naval gun EOC 10 inch 40 caliber RML 9 inch 12 ton gun...
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  • Thumbnail for RML 64-pounder 64 cwt gun
    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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    had a calibre of 6.29 inches (16.0 cm) and were known as a RML 68-pounder, or officially as the RML 80-pounder 5 ton. With a 10 lb (4.5 kg) powder charge...
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  • Thumbnail for QF 4.7-inch Mk I–IV naval gun
    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for RBL 7-inch Armstrong gun
    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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  • Thumbnail for QF 3-inch 20 cwt
    The QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun became the standard anti-aircraft gun used in the home defence of the United Kingdom against German Zeppelins airships...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 10-inch Mk I – IV naval gun
    10 inch guns Mks I, II, III, IV were British rifled breechloading 32-calibre naval and coast defence guns in service from 1885. The British 10-inch calibre...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 16.25-inch Mk I naval gun
    Elswick BL 16.25 inch naval gun was an early British superheavy rifled breech-loading naval gun, commonly known as the 110-ton gun or 111-ton gun. Elswick had...
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  • Thumbnail for RML 64-pounder 71 cwt gun
    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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  • Thumbnail for 1-inch Nordenfelt gun
    The 1-inch Nordenfelt gun was an early quick-firing light gun intended to defend larger warships against the new small fast-moving torpedo boats in the...
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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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  • Thumbnail for BL 5-inch gun Mk I – V
    The BL 5-inch guns Mk I – Mk V were early British 5-inch rifled breechloading naval guns after it switched from rifled muzzle-loaders in the late 1870s...
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    of the time. It was adopted for the larger types of rifled muzzle-loading guns rifled on the Woolwich principle (with three rifling grooves). Palliser shot...
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  • Thumbnail for Rifled muzzle loader
    (RML) is a type of large artillery piece invented in the mid-19th century. In contrast to smooth bore cannon which preceded it, the rifling of the gun...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun
    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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    (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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  • Thumbnail for BL 60-pounder gun
    British 5-inch (127 mm) heavy field gun designed in 1903–05 to provide a new capability that had been partially met by the interim QF 4.7 inch gun. It was...
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  • Thumbnail for Bare Island (New South Wales)
    with two RML 9 inch 12 ton guns, two RML 80 pounder guns, a RML 10 inch 18 ton gun in an armoured casemate, and two five–barreled 0.45-inch (1.1 cm) Nordenfelt...
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