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The boat is supported by two active class clubs that organize racing events, the Mini Ton Class and the Mirage Owners Club. [4] [5]In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "The ad copy (in 1987) said that this is 'a roomy small cruiser that can be easily trailerered and rigged ... should perform well in light wind ... built and equipped with the best materials available and modestly priced.'
During World War II the PL Locks and AC Slide Boxes (a component separate to the gun attached to the bottom and face of the breech block using a rifle-calibre tube insert to initiate firing of the bagged charge) utilising 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) tubes were replaced by PK Locks and Y Slide Boxes using 0.303 inch (7.7 mm) tubes.
The 5.5 inch guns were removed from HMS Hood in the 1935 refit. In 1940 two were installed in Fort Bedford Battery on Ascension Island and remain there today. A pair were installed in specially built casemates on the roof of Coalhouse Fort in Essex, overlooking the Thames. [4]
The BL 4.5 inch medium gun was a British gun used by field artillery in the Second World War for counter-battery fire. Developed as a replacement for the BL 60-pounder gun it used the same carriage as the BL 5.5-inch medium gun but fired a lighter round further.
The 5.25-inch gun was carried in Mk I twin mountings by the King George V class and in Mk II twin mountings on nine of the first eleven Dido-class anti-aircraft cruisers, the exceptions being HMS Scylla and HMS Charybdis, which mounted QF 4.5-inch Mk III guns due to shortages of the 5.25-inch gun.
The G5 howitzer saw action in Angola and Namibia in the South African Border War between 1986 and 1989, where it was in service with the South African Defence Force.The G5 was used operationally for the first time during Operation Alpha Centauri in 1986. [7]
From the BL Mark I gun of 1916 the 4.7-inch (120 mm) calibre was the mid-calibre weapon of the Royal Navy, used particularly on destroyers.Apart from some ships armed with QF 4-inch Mk V guns due to shortages, it remained the standard weapon for destroyers up to the W-class destroyers of 1943.
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