An old engraving showing a huge Armstrong 110-ton gun in action. It is from a book of the 1890s on Victorian discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. The weapon was a inch (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun. It was designed by George William Armstrong (first Baron Armstrong, 1810 –1900), an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. The guns were made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth. Some of the 15 guns made were used in Malta and Gibraltar
An old engraving showing a huge Armstrong 110-ton gun in action. It is from a book of the 1890s on Victorian discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. The weapon was a inch (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun. It was designed by George William Armstrong (first Baron Armstrong, 1810 –1900), an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. The guns were made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth. The 15 guns made were used to arm two Italian battleships and the British fortifications at Malta and Gibraltar in the 1880s.
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Location: England, UK
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