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Gun No. 213 had a liner. The gun was described as a 5-inch (127 mm) gun but with a 4-inch bore in the 1902 handbook, this indicated its higher power and also the fact the barrel was actually more the size of a 5-inch/40 caliber gun than a 4-inch gun. The ammunition was about 7 lb (3.2 kg) heavier than a 4-inch/40 caliber round.
The QF 4-inch gun Mk IV [note 1] was the main gun on most Royal Navy and British Empire destroyers in World War I. It was introduced in 1911 as a faster-loading light gun successor to the BL 4 inch Mk VIII gun. Of the 1,141 produced, 939 were still available in 1939. [1] Mk XII and Mk XXII variants armed many British interwar and World War II ...
120 mm (4.7 in) QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I - IV 40-caliber United Kingdom: Second Boer War - World War I 120 mm (4.7 in) QF 4.7 inch Mk V naval gun 45-caliber United Kingdom Japan: World War I - World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) QF 4.7 inch Mk VIII naval gun 40-caliber United Kingdom: World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) QF 4.7 inch Mk IX & XII 45-caliber
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It was typically used on cruisers and heavier ships, although V and W-class destroyers of 1917 also mounted the gun. Mk V was superseded by the QF 4 inch Mk XVI as the HA (i.e. anti-aircraft) gun on new warships in the 1930s, but it continued to serve on many ships such as destroyers, light and heavy cruisers in World War II. [4]
The ammunition fired by the Mk V gun and the Mk XVI guns were different. The ammunition for the Mk V gun was 44.3 inches (1.13 m) long and weighed 56 pounds (25 kg), while the ammunition fired by the Mk XVI gun was 42.1 inches (1.07 m) long and weighed 66.75 pounds (30.28 kg).
Brooke's 1863 report to Secretary Mallory shows a plate of an unbanded 8-inch smoothbore, but nothing further is known of it. [17] Similar attempts to bore out flawed 7-inch gun blocks to 9-inch (229 mm) smoothbores were unsuccessful. [18] Seven 10-inch (254 mm) double-banded guns were cast by Selma and four by Tredegar in 1864.
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