File:HMS Hotspur (1870) 12-inch gun.jpg

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Description

A 12-inch (305 mm) 25-ton muzzle-loading rifle aboard the British ironclad ram HMS Hotspur (1870). One of the gun's shells is hanging in the gunport in front of the gun.

Source

Scanned from Page 11 of Hodges, Peter, The Big Gun: Battleship Main Armament 1860-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1981. ISBN 0-87021-917-0.

Date

Sometime between 1871 and 1904

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unattributed

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