The BL 8 inch gun Mark VIII was the main battery gun used on the Royal Navy's County-class cruisers, in compliance with the Washington Naval Treaty of...
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The BL 8-inch howitzer Marks VI, VII and VIII (6, 7 and 8) were a series of British artillery siege howitzers on mobile carriages of a new design introduced...
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The BL 15-inch Mark I succeeded the BL 13.5-inch Mk V naval gun. It was the first British 15-inch (380 mm) gun design and the most widely used and longest...
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BL 8-inch howitzer can refer to either of two types of British heavy gun: BL 8-inch howitzer Mk I–V BL 8-inch howitzer Mk VI – VIII This disambiguation...
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BL 4-inch gun Mk I – Mk VI were a family of early British breech-loading 4-inch naval guns. This was the first 4-inch BL gun. With its short (60-inch...
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The BL 14-inch Mk VII naval gun was a breech loading (BL) gun designed for the battleships of the Royal Navy in the late 1930s. This gun armed the King...
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The BL 9.2-inch Mk I–VII guns were a family of early British heavy breechloading naval and coast defence guns in service from 1881 to the end of World...
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The BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun was a breech-loading naval rifle used by the Royal Navy during World War I. It was the largest and heaviest gun ever used...
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The BL 4-inch Mark VIII naval gun was a British medium-velocity wire-wound naval gun introduced in 1908 as an anti-torpedo boat gun in smaller ships whose...
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2 inch and later the 7.5 inch gun for cruisers, until 1923 when the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty led Britain to develop the Mk VIII 8-inch...
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ships were disposed of after the end of the War. The gun replaced the BL 8 inch Mk VIII naval gun used on earlier Washington Naval Treaty cruisers. These...
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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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An 8-inch howitzer is a howitzer with an 8-inch bore. Examples include: BL 8-inch howitzer Mk I–V - British design of WWI BL 8-inch howitzer Mk VI – VIII...
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and VI guns became 8-inch Howitzer Mk II 6 BL MK IV and VI guns, but adapted for different carriage, became 8-inch howitzer Mk III 8 BLC Mk I/VI adapted...
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by a Holt artillery tractor, Somme 1916 Three 8-inch howitzers in action BL 8-inch howitzer Mk VI – VIII British successor List of howitzers 21 cm Mörser...
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The BL 6-inch 80-pounder gun Mk I was the first generation of British 6-inch breechloading naval gun after it switched from muzzle-loaders in 1880. They...
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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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The Ordnance BL 60-pounder was a British 5-inch (127 mm) heavy field gun designed in 1903–05 to provide a new capability that had been partially met by...
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The BL 12-inch Mark VIII naval gun was one of the first large British rifled breech-loading naval guns designed for the higher pressures generated by the...
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I. Its 6-inch guns were designated BL 6-inch Mk XIII. Superfluous at the end of the war, Agincourt was decommissioned in 1921 and her 6-inch guns removed...
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The Ordnance BL 6 inch 26cwt howitzer was a British howitzer used during World War I and World War II. The qualifier "26cwt" refers to the weight of the...
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The BL 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...
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The BL 7.5-inch gun Mark VI was the 45 calibre naval gun forming the main battery of Royal Navy Hawkins-class cruisers. These ships with seven single...
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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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The BL 13.5 inch Mk V gun was a British heavy naval gun, introduced in 1912 as the main armament for the new super-dreadnought battleships of the Orion...
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The gun was based on the barrel of the QF 4-inch Mk V and the breech mechanism of the BL 4-inch Mk VIII and was first introduced in World War I on capital...
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Ordnance BL 12-inch howitzer was a scaled-up version of the successful BL 9.2-inch siege howitzer. Following the success of their BL 9.2-inch howitzer...
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4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun. Like all British nominally 4.5 inch naval guns, the QF Mk I has an actual calibre of 4.45 inches (113 mm). From the BL Mark...
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British Ordnance BL 12 inch howitzer on truck, railway, a type of railway gun, was developed following the success of the 9.2-inch siege howitzer. It...
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The Ordnance BL 9.2-inch howitzer was a heavy siege howitzer that formed the principal counter-battery equipment of British forces in France in World...
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