3"/40 (7.62 cm) and 6"/40 (15.2 cm) guns
on IJN Mikasa in 1990
Mikasa is now a historical museum at Shirahama
Beach in Yokosuka
Picture copyrighted by Troy
Prince
3"/40 (7.62 cm) and 6"/40 (15.2 cm) guns
on IJN Mikasa in 1990
Picture copyrighted by Troy
Prince
6"/40 (15.2 cm) EOC on IJN Suma
Photograph copyrighted by CPL (However,
the caption is in French)
6"/40 (15.2 cm) gun under construction
at the Elswick Works ca. 1898
Photograph Courtesy of Dave Perkins
6"/40 (15.2 cm) gun under construction
at the Elswick Works ca. 1898
Note that this is a three-motion breech,
not a Welin Breech Mechanism
Photograph Courtesy of Dave Perkins
Off-Site Resources
Images at The Vickers Photographic Archive
See photograph 6511
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