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  • RML 12 inch 25 ton gun
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  • The RML 12 inch 25 ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns used as primary armament on British ironclad turret battleships and coastal monitors, and also ashore for coast defence. They were the shorter and less powerful of the two 12-inch (305-mm) British RML guns, the other being the 35-ton gun.
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Name
  • Ordnance RML 12 inch 25 ton gun
is artillery
  • YES
Type
Caption
  • A 25-ton gun in an armoured turret aboard the ram HMS Hotspur. A shell is suspended near the muzzle ready for loading.
Unit Cost
  • 1716.0
Weight
  • Mk I :
  • Mk II :
Manufacturer
is UK
  • YES
Used by
is ranged
  • YES
production date
  • 1866
design date
  • 1864
Variants
  • Mk I, Mk II
abstract
  • The RML 12 inch 25 ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns used as primary armament on British ironclad turret battleships and coastal monitors, and also ashore for coast defence. They were the shorter and less powerful of the two 12-inch (305-mm) British RML guns, the other being the 35-ton gun.