HMS Raleigh (1873)
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HMS Raleigh was an unarmoured iron or "sheathed"-masted frigate completed in 1874. She was one of a series of three designed by Sir Edward Reed. The other two iron-hulled frigates of independent desig
Raleigh with HMS Serapis, during the visit of the Prince of Wales to Bombay in 1875
RML 9-inch 12-ton gun
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The RML 9-inch guns Mark I – Mark VI were large rifled muzzle-loading guns of the 1860s used as primary armament on smaller British ironclad battleships and secondary armament on larger battleships, a
HMS Raleigh (1873)
…expansion engine developed 5,639 horsepower (4,205 kW) and moved her along at 16.2 knots (30.0 km/h; 18.6 mph), an unprecedented speed at the time. Two 9-inch muzzle-loading rifle (MLR) guns and fourteen 7-inch 90 cwt MLR guns formed the main armament, supplemented by six 64-pounder MLRs. The 9-inch guns were chase weapons, mounted at front…
Restored Mark I, RML 9-inch 12-ton gun being fired at Simon's Town in 2014, with replica ammunition in the foreground
Diagrams showing the progressive changes in the gun's construction
Former gun positions at Verne High Angle Battery, Portland, England
Spy Glass Battery, Gibraltar