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Description

British QF 6 inch naval gun, on high-angle mounting on railway truck, as anti-aircraft gun. This is probably located in Chatham Dockyard, defending the Thames Estuary.
Cartridge case is visible lying horizontally behind gunlayer's feet (left side of gun).
A rope is attached to the barrel for use in manually depressing it. This was necessary because the gun was not designed to be mounted at such a high angle, and hence the gun was unbalanced, necessitating manual intervention to depress the barrel.
Additional recuperator cylinders appear to have been added above the barrel, presumably to assist runout at the abnormally high angle.
Source

Originally published in an illustrated magazine during World War I.
This version scanned from "British Artillery Weapons & Ammunition 1914-1918" by I.V. Hogg & L.F. Thurston, published by Ian Allan, London, 1972.
Date

circa. 1914-1918
Author

Photographer not identified. Assumed British Government.
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