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Description Photograph of 12-inch (305 mm) 25-ton muzzle-loading rifle aboard the British ironclad ram HMS Hotspur. One of the gun's shells is hanging in the gunport in front of the gun.
Date between 1871 and 1872
date QS:P,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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.


Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia as en:File:HMS Hotspur (1870) 12-inch gun.jpg by en:User:Mdnavman 16 May 2010.
Author Unattributed. Assumed Royal Navy.
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