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A £5 prize and a crowned badge of crossed carbines or rifles, worked in gold and worn upon the left arm, was approved to replace it on 10 June 1884. [ 1 ] After a 41-year lapse, the medal was re-introduced by King George V in 1923 and designated the King's Medal for Champion Shots in the Military Forces .
Since then, the Royal Navy Small Arms Meeting has been held annually on the National Rifle Ranges, Bisley, Surrey, except in 1991 when no competition was held as a result of the Gulf War. The competition consists of a series of combat shooting matches encompassing attack, defence, fighting in built-up area and close quarter battle shooting ...
RNA Bermuda Branch, HMS Malabar, and Sea Cadet Remembrance Day ceremony at HMS Jervis Bay memorial at Hamilton, Bermuda. The Royal Naval Association (RNA) is an association of current and former British Naval Service personnel (Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Women's Royal Naval Service, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines Reserve, Royal Fleet Auxiliary ...
The medal's reverse design and the same ribbon was used in 1955 with the Queen's Medal for Champion Shots of the New Zealand Naval Forces and in 1966 with the Queen's Medal for Champion Shots of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. [3] [4] [8] Obverse. The obverse bears the effigy of the reigning monarch, in the uniform of the Admiral of the Fleet ...
57 mm kan M/92 (Maxim-Nordenfelt 57 mm fast shooting naval gun L/48 model 1892) Sweden-Norway: 1890s - Cold War 57 mm (2.2 in) 57 mm kan M/95 (Finspång 57 mm naval gun L/26 model 1895) Sweden-Norway: 1890s - Cold War 57 mm (2.2 in) 57 mm kan M/16 (Bofors 57 mm naval gun L/21 model 1916) Sweden: World War I - Cold War 57 mm (2.2 in)
Ferguson rifle. Also in 1776, Major Patrick Ferguson patented his breech-loading Ferguson rifle, based on old French and Dutch designs of the 1720s and 1730s.One hundred of these, of the two hundred or so made, were issued to a special rifle corps in 1777, but the cost, production difficulties and fragility of the guns, coupled with the death of Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain meant ...
The 4.5-inch (114 mm) Mark 8 gun can be found on all the Royal Navy's frigates and destroyers and was used from the Falklands War to the War in Iraq.The gun can fire up to 24 high explosive shells per minute, each weighing more than 40 kilograms (88 lb), at targets more than 12 miles (19 km) away – this can be extended to nearly 18 miles (29 km) if special extended-range shells are used.
Royal Military Police Association Memorial; Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Royal Naval Association Uttoxeter Memorial; Royal Naval Medical Services Memorial; Royal Naval Patrol Service Memorial; 'HMS Europa, (RNPS)' Royal Naval Review; Royal Navy Coastal Forces Memorial; Royal Navy Engineers Benevolent Society Memorial; Royal ...