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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 by the British. [1] Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 inches (46 cm), but it fired a lighter shell.
BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun 45-caliber United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch naval guns Mk XIII – XVIII United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch Mk XXII naval gun 50-caliber United Kingdom: 1920s - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval gun 50-caliber
The Abercrombie-class monitors came about when Bethlehem Steel in the United States, the contracted supplier of the main armament for the Greek battleship Salamis being built in Germany, instead offered to sell the four 14"/45 caliber gun twin gun turrets to the Royal Navy on 3 November 1914, the ships were laid down and launched within six ...
BL 16.25-inch Mk I naval gun; BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun; Bofors 40 Mk4; ... Gas-checks in British RML heavy guns; Gyro rate unit; H. Hazemeyer gun mount; M. ML 8-inch ...
In his discussion of the single-ship action in which the French frigate Piémontaise captured the East Indiaman Warren Hastings on 11 June 1805, the naval historian William James compared the 18-pounder medium guns on Warren Hastings with the 18-pounder long guns that the British Royal Navy used. The medium 18-pounder was 6 ft (1.8 m) long, and ...
The last of these, HMS Furious, was intended to carry only two 18-inch guns, one forward and one aft, far larger and more powerful than the 15-inch weapons that were standard on the Queen Elizabeth and Revenge-class battleships, and the two Renown-class battlecruisers; at the same time her deck and belt armour was at best only 3 inches thick ...
BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun, a British naval gun; MK-3-12 (1907), a Russian naval main weapon that used three 12-inch guns in a single mounting; Mark 12 torpedo (1930), an American 21-inch torpedo; 5"/38 caliber gun or Mark 12 5"/38 (1934), a widely used American 5-inch naval gun; 18 inch Mark XII torpedo (1935), a British 18 inch torpedo
When the war began, British field guns (13-pounder and 18-pounder) were equipped solely with shrapnel shells, with an approximate 3:1 ratio of field guns to field howitzers (5-inch and 4.5-inch). The 18-pounder shrapnel shell contained 374 small spherical bullets.