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Photographs from around 1900
of the royal naval personnel onboard Battleships and heavy Cruisers. showing
sailors involved in tasks to do with the main guns, secondary armament
and ammunition on board
the ships. |
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Channel Fleet : Dismounting 6-in. Gun for
Examination (HMS Hermes) A
reproduction of this original photo / photo-postcard size 10" x
7" approx available. Order photograph here © Walker
Archive. Order Code PHC198 |
Channel Fleet : 6-in QF Gun "Ready" |
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A 12-pounder in the Battery |
The 9.2-in Gun : "Stations clean Guns" |
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A Maxim Class at the Sheerness Gunnery School. 1896
Here we have a class of bluejackets at the gunnery
school at Sheerness, taking a lesson in Maxim gun construction.
Thorough is the watchword of the Royal Navy in everything; and our
sailors learn, not only how to handle to best advantage the weapons put
at their disposal, but they also have to understand all about them -
their make, fitting and internal arrangements. High over Jack at
school, in an angle of the walls, towers the giant figure head of a
mighty Man of War of the olden time, a relic that ere long will be rare
indeed, for our newest ships show no figure head at all.
Reproduction
of original photograph published 1895 Price £25. Click here to
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Quick Firing Gun Drill at the Sheerness Gunnery
School. 1896.
The Sheerness School of Gunnery, from which a class of
bluejackets are shown above at drill with a quick firing gun, is a
comparatively new Institution, founded within the last three years for
the instruction of the men in the Naval Barracks at Chatham and
Sheerness. Wherever naval classes are under training nowadays,
particular attention is paid to the handling of the quick firing gun,
whose value in action, whether against the torpedo boat, or in ship to
ship battles, is universally admitted as a matter of the first
importance.
Reproduction
of original photograph published 1895 Price £25. Click here to
order. ORDER CODE 1V102B |
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67 ton guns mounted en barbette. c.1892. |
Six inch quick-firer and shield, designed by Sir W.
Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. |
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Channel Fleet : The 12-in Gun |
12-pr Gun on Boat Deck |
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Life in the Navy. Working the QF Guns |
Taking ammunition on board a battleship
in the early 20th Century. (1901)
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