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BL 12 inch Mk I – VII naval gun

Index BL 12 inch Mk I – VII naval gun

The BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I was a British rifled breech-loading naval gun of the early 1880s intended for the largest warships such as battleships and also coastal defence. [1]

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Battleship

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns.

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Coastal artillery

Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications.

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Horse Sand Fort

Horse Sand Fort is one of the larger Royal Commission sea forts in the Solent off Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

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Ian V. Hogg

Ian Vernon Hogg (1926 – 7 March 2002) was a British author of books on firearms, artillery, ammunition, and fortification, as well as biographies of several famous general officers.

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List of naval guns

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Naval artillery

Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare, later also for naval gunfire support against targets on land, and for anti-aircraft use.

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No Man's Land Fort

No Man's Land Fort, also referred to as No Man's Fort, is a sea fort in the Solent, near Portsmouth, England.

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Palliser shot and shell

Palliser shot was invented by Sir William Palliser and hence its name.

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Rifled breech loader

A rifled breech loader (RBL) is an artillery piece which, unlike the smooth-bore cannon and rifled muzzle loader (RML) which preceded it, has rifling in the barrel and is loaded from the breech at the rear of the gun.

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Roman numerals

The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Spitbank Fort

Spitbank Fort or Spitsand Fort or Spit Sand Fort or simply Spit Fort is a sea fort built as a result of the 1859 Royal Commission.

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Redirects here:

BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I - V, BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I - VII, BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I – V, BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I – VII.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_12_inch_Mk_I_–_VII_naval_gun

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