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It looks like an Armstrong RML gun from about 1860. I found a similar one (attached) in a book so old it didn't have photographs only lithographs.
Regards,
Charlie
Edit - Improved answer. It could be a 9inch 12-ton Armstrong RML Mark 1 from the 1860s. The later marks had fewer tubes in the barrel presumably because
steel making improved from 1860 onwards. There are a couple of surviving 9inch guns in Victoria.
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-- Edited by CharlieC on Monday 18th of May 2020 08:18:48 AM
Blimey. What a contraption. Does this throw any light on it? Could the Turks have had some at Gallipoli?
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There was also a similar looking RML 12inch 25 ton Mark I gun but I haven't found images of the Mark I version - the later Marks looked quite different.
Charlie
-- Edited by CharlieC on Monday 18th of May 2020 01:49:56 PM
Goodness me. It looks like something Albert Robida might have drawn.
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For sure, the old Armstrong guns had a certain "presence" - look as though they would fit right into the steampunk anime about the town of artillerymen.
I think I've found a carriage similar to the one in the original image. This is an RML 11inch (underbored 12inch) 25-ton gun in Bermuda (attached - thanks to Wikipedia)
emplaced as a coastal defence gun.
The barrel seems to be a Mark II, the Mark I was a more complex construction like the 9inch Mark I.
The range of these guns was quite short - the 9inch max. range from the firing table was 6,000yds (5500m).
Charlie
Edit: Don't you hate it when you get a mental itch - couldn't remember the anime but it's the third story in "Memories" by Katsuhiro Otomo called "Cannon Fodder"
-- Edited by CharlieC on Tuesday 19th of May 2020 02:58:04 AM
CharlieC, the lithograph posted in your first post (second in the thread) is the RML 12-inch 25 ton Mark I gun. It's not quite a photograph, but it at least shows how the gun looked.
I recognized that lithograph from Alexander Lyman Holley's A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor, page 19:
Since that book was written in 1865, the 12-inch RML is referred to as the 600-pounder, the 9-inch RML as the 300-pounder, the 8-inch RML as the 150-pounder, etc (also it has plenty of information on how the guns were made and their layouts). They probably weren't finalized yet either, as those weights aren't the weights of the final shells adopted.
That was apparently how the guns were referred to back then, so searching "600-pounder Armstrong" or "RML 600-pounder" might get more images of a 12-inch 25 ton RML Mark I cannon.
So if you had to write a caption for this picture, what would it be?
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That will do me. May I present it to the Kansas City WWI Museum archive?
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