Britain
4"/45 (10.2 cm) QF Mark V and Mark XV
Pictures

Updated 15 December 2013


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Port side of HMS Hood showing a 4"/45 (10.2 cm) Mark V
In the lower right corner is one of the 4" (10.2 cm) ready ammunition boxes


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4"/45 (10.2 cm) guns on HMAS Sydney ca. 1940
State Library of Victoria Image H98.105/3249


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Forward 4"/45 (10.2cm) gun on HMS Weston
IWM Photograph A 1952


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HMS York
4"/45 (10.2 cm) Mark V in HA Mark III mounting
Airship is USS Macon (ZRS-5), passing over HMS York near San Diego, California
Photograph copyrighted by Mrs. Josephine Burston and used here by her kind permission



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4"/45 (10.2 cm) Mark V gun in Mark III** mounting
Note the manual fuze setter sitting on the platform with a fuze setting tool in his hand
The large "pie plate" at the upper right is part of the HA gun sight
IWM Photograph



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4"/45 (10.2 cm) Mark VC gun under constructon at the Dominion Engineering Works plant in Canada
National Film Board of Canada
Library and Archives Canada Photograph 3196181


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4"/45 (10.2 cm) Mark VC guns under constructon at the Dominion Engineering Works plant in Canada
National Film Board of Canada
Library and Archives Canada Photograph 3196182


Images at The Vickers Photographic Archive

Mark XV:  See photographs 4819, 4820, 4821 and 4833
Photograph 4833 is incorrectly identified as a 4.7" (12 cm) mounting


Images at Australian War Memorial

Picture of 4"/45 (10.2 cm) Mark V gun on HMAS Australia
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Page History

16 June 2012 - New datapage
15 December 2013 - Added photograph of HMS Weston