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 (32 cm) versions...
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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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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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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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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 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 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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13.5 inch Mk I-IV RML 12.5 inch 38 ton gun BL 12 inch Mark XIII BL 12 inch Mk XI, Mark XII BL 12 inch Mk X naval gun BL 12 inch Mark IX BL 12 inch naval...
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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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Chief Minister of Gibraltar Peter Caruana. In 2013 an original RML 12.5 inch 38 ton gun was mounted on a custom made replica carriage at Hardings's Battery...
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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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Office. 1885 Secretary of State for War (1885). Handbook for the R.M.L. 12.5-inch 38-ton Gun, Marks I and II. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1887...
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three guns. In 1888–1892, a new battery was built on the site, and renamed Frobisher Battery in 1890. It was armed with one RML 12.5-inch 38-ton gun, which...
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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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6-pounder (2.5 in/64 mm) mountain or light field guns, 9-pounder (3 in/76 mm) guns for horse artillery, and 12-pounder (3 inches /76 mm) field guns. Armstrong...
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Harding's Battery (section Re-installation of a gun)
1876 by which time the 9 inch gun had become a larger 12.5 inch 38 ton RML gun which could fire 800 pound projectiles. This gun was commissioned in 1878...
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linking Conception and St. John Bastions. It contains a gun emplacement for a RML 12.5 inch 38 ton gun, as well as other British modifications. St. John Bastion...
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directing station for the Brennan Torpedo System. A gun emplacement for an RML 12.5-inch 38 ton gun is located on the bastion's face. No. 1 Curtain – curtain...
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hutment area near Bleak House. In 1878, the battery mounted an RML 12.5-inch 38-ton gun. Fa & Finlayson (2006). The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945...
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Muzzle-loading guns (as opposed to muzzle-loading mortars and howitzers) are an early type of artillery, (often field artillery, but naval artillery and...
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engines. The 25-ton guns were replaced with RML 12 inch 35 ton guns. This additional weight increased her mean draught to 26 feet 8 inches (8.13 m). Sea...
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linking Conception and St. John Bastions. It contains a gun emplacement for a RML 12.5 inch 38 ton gun, as well as other British modifications. St. John Bastion...
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plans, ending up with two 10-inch 18-ton rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns to landward and one 12.5-inch 38-ton RML gun to seaward. The other sea forts...
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designed the RML 16-inch 80-ton gun in 1874, and test-fired it on 17 September 1876. At first, the 35.5 cm MRK L/22.5 of 57,500 kg proved somewhat (2.5%) more...
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four 12-inch rifled muzzle-loading (RML) 35-ton Mark I naval guns on sliding carriages, and HMS Thunderer shipped with two 12.5-inch RML 38-ton Mark I...
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British BL 6-inch gun Mk XIX was introduced in 1916 as a lighter and longer-range field gun replacement for the obsolescent BL 6-inch gun Mk VII. The majority...
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Coastal artillery (redirect from Coastal gun)
integrated with the navy rather than the army. RML 11 inch 25 ton gun at Fort George, Bermuda. 16-inch howitzer M1920, Fort Story, Virginia, USA 1942...
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armament was:- seventeen 10-inch R.M.L. 18 tons Lower tier casemates; five 9-inch R.M.L. 12 tons Lower tier casemates. Five gun positions were constructed...
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It was initially armed with three RML 11 inch 25 ton guns, but these were soon replaced with RML 12.5 inch 38 ton guns. In 1888, the fort was inspected...
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