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The Mark 3 was a 48.9 calibers built-up gun designed and built in the United Kingdom for use in the two New Orleans-class protected cruisers that the US Navy had purchased from the United Kingdom before the Spanish–American War. They were based on the British 4.7-inch Gun Mark IV, but a non-standard export model, the standard Mark IV was 40 ...
In 1993, for his body of work – including Flower Power and his Pulitzer-nominated 1987 photograph of Coretta Scott King unveiling a bust of her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr., in the U.S. Capitol [10] – Boston received the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award from the National Press Photographers Association, their highest honor.
The 3-inch/50-caliber gun (Mark 22) was a semiautomatic anti-aircraft weapon with a power-driven automatic loader and was fitted as single and twin mounts. The single mount was to be exchanged for a twin 40 mm antiaircraft gun mount, and the twin 3-inch/50 for a quadruple 40 mm mount, on Essex -class aircraft carriers , and Allen M. Sumner and ...
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The Mark 3 Experimental was a 30 caliber gun that used trunnions and had 11 hoops with the outer hoop starting 4 in (100 mm) from the breech and running out to the muzzle. The Mark 3s consisted of gun Nos. 9 – 27, 33 – 37, and 51.
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The Mark II is an upgraded model of the original Hi-Power introduced in 1982. [30] Some of the upgrades were ambidextrous thumb safeties, nylon grips, 3-dot low profile sights, and a throated barrel. [30] The Mark III was another advancement over the Mark II released in 1989, [31] which featured a firing pin safety and a black epoxy finish. The ...