BL 16-inch Mk I naval gun
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The BL 16-inch Mark I was a British naval gun introduced in the 1920s and used on the two Nelson-class battleships. A breech-loading gun, the barrel was 45 calibres long meaning 45 times the 16-inch b
Guns of HMS Rodney at maximum elevation, 1940
HMS Nelson firing a salvo during gunnery trials, 1942
Loading 16-inch shells onto HMS Rodney
Installing 16-inch gun on HMS Rodney, 1942
G3 battlecruiser
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The G3 class was a class of battlecruisers planned by the Royal Navy after the end of World War I in response to naval expansion programmes by the United States and Japan. The four ships of this class
BL 16-inch Mk I naval gun
…shorthand) meaning 45 times the 16-inch (406 mm) bore – 60 ft (18 m) long. These wire-wound built-up guns had originally been planned for the cancelled G3-class battlecruiser design upon which the Nelson class drew. Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Company at Elswick, Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness, William Beardmore & Company…
A 1:96 scale model of a G3 battlecruiser