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position guns for defence of the fort. These used either obsolete 40-pounder RML carriages or special high-mounting carriages for firing over parapets with recoil controlled by a hydraulic buffer built into the platform to which the carriage was fastened. A number were also set up in practise batteries adjacent to fortifications and batteries.
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The gun was designed to fire a number of different types of projectile. Common shell could be used against earthworks, buildings and other vehicles and artillery. Shrapnel shell was designed for use against soft targets, such as troops or cavalry, at longer ranges – for soft targets within 400 yards
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The gun was installed as a conventional coast defence gun in South Africa and
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African Military History Society. Military History Journal – Vol 2 No 3 June 1972. Guns in South Africa 1899–1902 Part V and VI
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to denote Marks (models) of ordnance until after World War II. Hence this article covers the five models of BL 5-inch naval guns.
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Gunnery, 1902. LONDON : PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE
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Text Book of
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propellant in the 1890s. Similarly, the black powder filling for common shells was changed for the much more powerful
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Instructions for 5-inch Rifled Breech
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Handbook of the 5-inch b.l. gun marks IV and V on carriage disappearing 8-feet parapet India 1898
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Handbook of the 5-inch B.L. gun marks iv and v land service, 1890, 1895, 1903
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Handbook of the 5-inch B.L. gun marks I-V land service 1904
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was the most commonly used British heavy gun in the war.
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Mk III – V : 40 long hundredweight (2,030 kg)
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Mk I – II : 38 long hundredweight (1,930 kg)
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2 guns on 40-pounder RML field carriages, outside the
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British 5"/25 (12.7 cm) BL Marks I, II, III, IV and V
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A number of guns mounted on carriages from obsolete
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237:gun on Vavasseur recoil mounting on
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136:125 inches (3,175 mm) bore (25
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209:naval guns after it switched from
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327:Colonial navies of Australia
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511:training base south of
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1175:QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss
1127:BL 9.2-inch Mk I – VII
967:RBL 7-inch 110-pounder
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303:as re-gunned in 1888
207:rifled breechloading
183:Muzzle velocity
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1033:RML 9-pounder 8 cwt
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1147:BL 12-inch Mk VIII
1073:RML 12-inch 35-ton
1068:RML 12-inch 25-ton
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930:12-pounder Millar
850:32-pounder 55 cwt
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705:978-1-86176-032-6
474:A gun on the deck
360:Coast defence gun
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1058:RML 10-inch
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1048:RML 8-inch
1043:RML 7-inch
877:shell guns
860:68-pounder
845:24-pounder
840:18-pounder
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377:Ammunition
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79:1880–1947?
1246:Torpedoes
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1107:BL 5-inch
1102:BL 4-inch
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