The Royal Navy State Funeral Gun Carriage is a converted Ordnance, BL, 12 pdr 6 cwt, MK II, gun carriage which has been used in the UK to bear the coffin at the funeral processions of: Queen Victoria; King Edward VII; King George V; King George VI; Sir Winston Churchill; Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma; and Queen Elizabeth II. It is traditionally pulled by members of the Royal Navy; when not in use, it is kept at the shore establishment HMS Excellent. A smaller version, known as the Portsmouth Gun Carriage, has been used at the ceremonial funerals of several senior naval officers in the 20th century.
Royal Navy State Funeral Gun Carriage in 2022, pulled by 138 Royal Navy sailors during the funeral procession of Elizabeth II
Closeup of the Royal Navy State Funeral Gun Carriage at Elizabeth II's state funeral
The Gun Carriage at the funeral of King Edward VII in 1910.
The ceremonial funeral of Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma took place on Wednesday, 5 September 1979, at Westminster Abbey following his assassination by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on Monday, 27 August 1979, off the coast of the Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, Ireland.
Correspondence between Sir Philip Moore, Private Secretary to the Queen, and Sir Keith Holyoake, Governor-General of New Zealand, relating to Mountbatten's death
Mountbatten's tomb in Romsey Abbey