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The Mark 17 was used in a single-pedestal Mark 18 mount. The Mark 17 gun could fire a 105-pound (48 kg) Common shell (HE) projectile 19,800 yd (18.1 km) at an elevation of 20 degrees. Ammunition was bagged (the projectile and the powder bag were separate). The full-charge powder bag for these guns weighed 34 or 34.5 lb (15.4 or 15.6 kg). [6]
The BL 15-inch Mark I succeeded the BL 13.5-inch Mk V naval gun. It was the first British 15-inch (380 mm) gun design and the most widely used and longest lasting of any British designs, and arguably the most successful heavy gun ever developed by the Royal Navy. [3] It was deployed on capital ships from 1915 until 1959 and was a key Royal Navy ...
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For example, a 4-inch gun of 50 calibers would have a barrel 4 in × 50 = 200 in long (written as 4" L/50 or 4"/50). A 16-inch gun of 50 calibers (16" L/50) has a barrel length of 50 × 16 = 800 inches (66 ft 8 in). Both 14-in and 16-in navy guns were common in World War II.
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Muzzle velocity. 1,890 feet per second (576 m/s) [6] Maximum firing range. 8,000 yards (7,300 m) [7] 8,530 yards (7,800 m) (Romanian service) [8] The BL 6 inch gun Mk V [note 1] was an early Elswick Ordnance Company breech-loading naval gun originally designed to use the old gunpowder propellants. They were used for coast defence around the ...