A Mk VI octuple 2 pdr gun mounting in the Gunnery Equipment Store in Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.
A front view of a Mk VI octuple 2 pdr gun mounting suspended from an overhead crane in the Gunnery Equipment Store in Portsmouth Dockyard. The guns are not fitted. On one of the ammunition boxes is "Supt. Naval Store Officer, H M Dockyard, Devonport, for M E D. 12 tons 10 cwts 0 qrs." On the left are various parts of the starboard 6 inch gun battery removed from the battleship Queen Elizabeth (1913)
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Object details
| ID: | N24713 |
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| Type: | Negative |
| Materials: | Glass plate negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 23 November 1937 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 120 mm x 163 mm |