BL 6-inch Mk XXIII naval gun
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The 50-calibre BL 6-inch gun Mark XXIII was the main battery gun used on the Royal Navy and British Commonwealth's conventional light cruisers built from 1930 through the Second World War, and passed
Forward triple-gun turrets of HMS Belfast, March 2005
Handling cordite charges inside a Mk XXIII turret aboard HMS Jamaica, 1943
Breech with shell on loading tray of centre gun in a turret on HMS Belfast, 2006
Inside a twin Mark XXI turret aboard HMS Orion, a Leander-class cruiser.
HMS Belfast
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HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum. Constr
BL 6-inch Mk XXIII naval gun
…A second turret from INS Delhi, is preserved at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. 12 guns and four turrets are preserved on the museum ship HMS Belfast in London, UK A number of Mark XXIIIs can also be found at English Heritage or other historical sites being used to represent earlier marks which were…
Belfast in 2013
HMS Belfast berthed in the Pool of London; Tower Bridge can be seen behind.
Shells in a rack in the underwater magazine serving the "A" turret of Belfast.
One of Belfast's Supermarine Walrus aircraft, photographed in an Icelandic fjord, 1942–1943.