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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 12.5-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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    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 9-inch Armstrong Gun
    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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  • Thumbnail for RML 12-inch 35-ton gun
    powerful of the two 12-inch British RML guns, the other being the 25-ton gun. This gun design originated in 1871 as an 11.6-inch (295 mm) gun firing a 700-pound...
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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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  • Thumbnail for RML 16-inch 80-ton gun
    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 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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  • 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 8-inch 9-ton gun
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for RML 7-pounder mountain gun
    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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  • 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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  • 12 inch Mk XI, Mark XII BL 12 inch Mk X naval gun BL 12 inch Mark IX BL 12 inch naval gun Mk VIII RML 12 inch 35 ton gun EOC 12 inch /45 RML 11 inch 25...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Thumbnail for RML 9-pounder 8 and 6 cwt guns
    The RML 9-pounder 8 cwt gun and the RML 9-pounder 6 cwt gun were British Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) field, horse and naval artillery guns manufactured...
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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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    (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 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 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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  • Thumbnail for BL 6-inch Mk II–VI naval gun
    The BL 6-inch gun Marks II, III, IV and VI were the second and subsequent generations of British 6-inch rifled breechloading naval guns, designed by the...
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    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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  • The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. The...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 10-pounder mountain gun
    mountain gun was developed as a BL successor to the RML 2.5 inch screw gun which was outclassed in the Second Boer War. This breech-loading gun was an improvement...
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  • Thumbnail for QF 6-inch naval gun
    The QF 6-inch 40 calibre naval gun (Quick-Firing) was used by many United Kingdom-built warships around the end of the 19th century and the start of the...
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    The battery was armed with two BL 9.2-inch guns. In 1906, the RML 11-inch gun was replaced by BL 9.2-inch Mk X guns which had an effective range of about...
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