100-ton gun
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The 100-ton gun was a British coastal defense gun and is the world's largest black powder cannon. It is a 17.72-inch rifled muzzle-loading gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division
"Rockbuster" at Napier of Magdala Battery, Gibraltar
Unchambered 17-inch gun
Chambered 17.72-inch gun
S.S. Europa comes to collect the first gun
HMS Inflexible (1876)
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HMS Inflexible was a Victorian ironclad battleship carrying her main armament in centrally placed turrets. The ship was constructed in the 1870s for the Royal Navy to oppose the perceived growing thre
Inflexible with the pole masts fitted in 1885 that replaced the original full sailing rig
Plans of Inflexible as shown in Brassey's Naval Annual
Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard, stern view of the ship, by Josiah Robert Wells
Drawing depicting one of the gun turrets