.455 (Mk I) Webley Webley Mark VI .455 service revolver Close up of the cylinder (including thumb catch) on a Webley Mk VI service revolver Webley WG...
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.455 Webley is a British handgun cartridge, most commonly used in the Webley top break revolvers Marks I through VI. It is also known as ".455 Eley" and...
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Peacemaker" in the United States, the Mk 1 was manufactured in .450, .455 Webley, and .476 calibre and founded a family of revolvers that were the standard handguns...
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Beaumont–Adams revolver (redirect from Beaumont-Adams Mk I*)
Army in .442 calibre (54-bore, 11.2 mm) in 1856, it was replaced in British service in 1880 by the .476 calibre (11.6 mm) Enfield Mk I revolver. On 20...
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Enfield revolver (redirect from Enfield No. 2 Mk I revolver)
is not applied to Webley Mk VI revolvers built by RSAF Enfield between 1923 and 1926. The Enfield No. 2 is an unrelated .38 calibre revolver that was...
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Colt New Service (category World War I British infantry weapons)
Enfield Mk II revolver in service since 1882. New Service revolvers, designated as Pistol, Colt, .455-inch 5.5-inch barrel Mk. I, chambered for the .455 Webley...
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Lee–Enfield (redirect from Lee-Enfield Cavalry Carbine Mk I)
starting in 1970, over 1,000 of the No. 4 Mk I (T) and No. 4 Mk. I* (T) sniper rifles were converted to this new calibre and designated L42A1. The L42A1 sniper...
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Vickers machine gun (redirect from Vickers Medium Machine Gun Mk. I)
larger calibre (half-inch) version of the Vickers was used on armoured fighting vehicles and naval vessels. The Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-inch, Mk. II was...
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.476 Enfield (redirect from .455/476)
g) of cordite in the .455 Mark I. While the .476 Enfield cartridge could be used in any British-manufactured .455 Webley calibre service revolver, there...
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Glossary of British ordnance terms (redirect from Calibre radius head)
as the new QF guns of the same calibre. Examples were conversion of BL 6-inch Mk IV and VI guns which became e.g. QFC I/IV, and some BL 4-inch guns. Quick...
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the initial order for 20,000 Mk V revolvers had not been completed when hostilities began. On 24 May 1915, the Webley Mk VI was adopted as the standard...
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US field gun of same calibre Various shell weights, both heavier and lighter than 45 pounds (20.4 kg), were tried. Early Mk I–IV Common Lyddite shells...
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No.2 Mk.1 Revolver Webley Revolver – many marks in .38 and .455 calibres Browning FN-Inglis "Pistol No.II Mk.I*" Colt M1911A1 Webley No.I Mk.I – automatic...
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HMS Bellerophon as re-gunned in 1885 Mk IV were 30-calibres guns mounted in : Mersey-class cruisers of 1885 Mk VI were 30 calibres guns mounted in : Indian monitors...
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380-pound projectile was calculated to be suitable. A total of 19 Mk I and Mk II guns of 26 calibres were made starting in 1881, but after lengthy delays and modifications...
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from and longer (30-calibres, 183.5 inch bore) than the contemporary 26-calibres British naval service 6-inch Mk III, IV and VI guns designed by the...
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Smith & Wesson Triple Lock (category World War I British infantry weapons)
the Webley Mk VI, early in the war the Ministry of Munitions contracted Colt and Smith & Wesson to manufacture revolvers chambered in .455 Webley. Smith...
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Lewis gun (category World War I aircraft guns)
500 in .30-06 and 1,050 in .303 British calibre. Model 1915. This was the designation given to .303 Lewis Mk I weapons manufactured for Canada in the United...
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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 originated...
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European powers. Mks I - VII all had a barrel of approximately 303 inches in length (25.25 calibres) and similar performance. Mk II was installed on battleships...
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came in .430 Tranter Short Centrefire, .450 Adams, .455/.476 Enfield Mk II, and .476 Enfield Mk II. It was designed for sale to Army officers. Some came...
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20 June, as television news crews filmed, Dryden aimed a handgun—a .455 Webley Mk VI revolver—at Collinson and shot him dead. As the journalists and council...
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Lee–Metford (redirect from Lee-Merford Mark I)
of the rifle's introduction, rifle design had moved on to using small-calibre smokeless powder cartridges, which allowed bullets to be propelled at much...
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Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from...
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Maxim gun (category World War I infantry weapons of the United States)
significance owed much to its psychological impact.[citation needed] A larger-calibre version of the Maxim, firing a one-pound shell, was built by Maxim-Nordenfeldt...
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three different rifle calibres in service, the Enfield–Martinis were withdrawn, converted to 0.45 calibre, and renamed Martini–Henry Mk IV "A", "B" and "C"...
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Pattern 1907 bayonet (category World War I British infantry weapons)
into the remaining blade, creating the India Pattern No. 1 Mk. I*. The India Pattern No. 1 Mk. I** is almost identical except a false edge 2 in (51 mm) long...
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revolver (.450 calibre) Enfield revolver (.476 calibre) Webley revolver (.455 calibre) Long-arms Martini–Henry rifle (.577/.450 calibre) Snider–Enfield...
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Ross rifle (category World War I Canadian infantry weapons)
from 1903 until 1918. The Ross Mk.II (or "model 1905") rifle was highly successful in target shooting before World War I, but the close chamber tolerances...
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Musket. The Long Land Pattern musket and its derivatives, all 0.75 inches calibre flintlock muskets, were the standard long guns of the British Empire's...
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