The QF 12-pounder 12-cwt gun was a common, versatile 3-inch calibre naval gun introduced in 1894 and used until the middle of the 20th century. It was produced by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick and used
Type 41 3-inch (7.62 cm) 40 calibre gun on the Japanese battleship Mikasa
As first mounted on 27-knot destroyers from 1894, here seen on HMS Daring
Mk V gun on a British trawler, World War II
Naval brigade with a "long twelve" in Natal
Japanese battleship Mikasa
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Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagsh
QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun
…Coast defence gun at Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru, New Zealand On the battleship Mikasa, Yokosuka, Japan The gun of HMS Campbeltown, recovered around 1972, on display in Saint-Nazaire, France…
Mikasa in Yokosuka, Japan, 2021
Turret layout for original 12-inch (305 mm) 40-calibre guns
Mikasa as she appeared in 1905
The new 45-calibre 12-inch guns added during the reconstruction