File:HMS Iron Duke (1870) 9-inch gun.jpg

A 9-inch (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifle aboard the British central battery ironclad HMS Iron Duke (1870). Hanging from the deckhead over the gun are its ramming staff and its sponging-out staff. One of the gun's shells, partially obscured by the glare from outside, is hanging in the gunport in front of the gun.

1870s

Scanned from Page 10 of Hodges, Peter, The Big Gun: Battleship Main Armament 1860-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1981. ISBN 0-87021-917-0.

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