Maritime History

BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun

The BL 6-inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy travelling carriage in 1915 for British Army service to become one of the main heavy field guns in the First World War, and also served as one of the main coast defence guns throughout the British Empire until the 1950s.

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See also

• ▸Geography of Chennai
• ▸Bibliometrics
• ▸Charlottetown

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