Talk:King Edward VII-class battleship

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I feel that

All the King Edward VIIs had four 12-inch (305 mm) guns in two twin turrets and a secondary armament of twelve 6-inch (152 mm) guns on a displacement of 13,000 to

should be

All these classes had four 12-inch (305 mm) guns in two twin turrets and a secondary armament of twelve 6-inch (152 mm) guns on a displacement of 13,000 to

pietro151.29.249.152 (talk) 18:34, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

6" gun in open mount?
The photo showing Australian soldiers touring the ship in 1919 asserts that the gun in an open mount on the upper deck is a 6" weapon. I would argue that the gun in question is actually a 3" 12-pounder; the BL 6" Mk VII was a much bigger gun.--Death Bredon (talk) 22:54, 20 March 2020 (UTC)


 * That can't be the case, though, as the photo was taken in 1919, by which time Commonwealth had all of her 12-pounders removed. Parsecboy (talk) 00:43, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Is it possibly set up as a Saluting Gun? Some references I've seen say 3 or 6 pdr were typically used in the role.
 * it doesn't look like one of the 3" Anti-Aircraft Mounts
 * (note: the 12 pdr anti-torpedo and 3" Anti-aircraft are both 76.2mm bore. A 6" would be roughly 100pdr range. A 6" L/45 would be over 23 ft long, the L/50 being over 25 ft long. Those Men around the gun would be around 6 ft tall.)
 * The Photo may be dated wrong.2603:7080:CB3F:5032:816:5444:176B:C420 (talk) 03:07, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Measuring from the photograph, the calibre at the muzzle of the TWO open-mount guns on the upper deck appears to be about 1/2 the width of the heads of the people on the upper deck (and further back from the muzzle) and around 2/5 to 1/3 of the width of the heads of the people on the lower deck (and at or closer than the muzzle). The width of the head is around 15-16 cm or c. 6-6.3", which would make the calibre of the guns around 3" (76mm), give or take .5 inches. In no case are they 6" guns; I have fired 152mm M. 1892 Canet coastal guns (comparable to the BL 6" MK VII) in my time and they were massively larger than the guns in the photo, the barrel and breech alone weighing over 7 tons with a barrel length of 6.86 m or c. 22.5'. The guns in the picture look to me like QF 12-pdr 12 cwt or 18 cwt types. If you enlarge the photograph of King Edward VII's forward 9.2" gun you can see the 12-pdrs on the upper deck. Death Bredon (talk) 11:56, 5 April 2024 (UTC)