BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun
The BL 9.2-inch Mk IX and Mk X guns were British breech loading 9.2-inch (234 mm) guns of 46.7 calibre, in service from 1899 to the 1950s as naval and coast defence guns. They had possibly the longest, most varied and successful service history of any British heavy ordnance.
Mk X gun facing north at Breakneck Battery on Gibraltar January 1942.
Mk IX & X barrel design
Breech view of a Mk X gun in 1946
Forward gun on HMS Cressy
Greek cruiser Georgios Averof
Georgios Averof is a modified Pisa-class armored cruiser built in Italy for the Royal Hellenic Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship served as the Greek flagship during most of the first half of the century. Although popularly known as a battleship (θωρηκτό) in Greek, she is in fact an armored cruiser, the only ship of this type still in existence.
Georgios Averof as a floating museum in Palaio Faliro, Athens
Right elevation and plan drawing of Georgios Averof from Brassey's Naval Annual 1915
Averof fitting out, summer 1910, in Livorno, Italy
Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, 1920