Looking up rifling / rifled barrel of the 6 inch (152mm) gun on HMS ; a British M29 class Monitor World War I warship. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard UK

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Looking up rifling / rifled barrel of the 6 inch (152mm) gun on HMS ; a British M29 class Monitor World War I warship. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. HMS / M33; one of three remaining British warships from World War I. She was built in 1915 on the orders of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. She was a floating gun platform designed to bombard coastal positions from the sea. Her first active operation was the support of the British landings at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in August 1915. She remained stationed at Gallipoli until the evacuation in January 1916. She served in the Mediterranean for the remainder of the War and was involved in the seizure of the Greek fleet at Salamis Bay in 1916.

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Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth, UK
Photo credit: © David Gee 4 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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