British Naval Gun Mountings - Ian Buxton

Heavy Gun Mountings Dominated The Design Of Larger Warships, On Account Of Their Size, Weight, Protection And Cost. In The 1890s, British Gun Mountings Developed Rapidly With Gun Technologies (wire Winding, Cordite) And The Rise Of The Two Major Ordnance Companies, Armstrongs And Vickers, Producing Large Numbers Of Weapons For The Royal Navy And For Worldwide Export. But By 1960, Aircraft And Guided Missiles Had Made The Big Gun Redundant, So The Period From 1890s To 1950s Covering The Two World Wars Is The Most Historically Significant.the Focus Of This Book Is On The Larger Mountings And Those Fitted In The Larger Ships The Massively Engineered Non Transferable Mountings, Whose Complexities And Associated Magazines Took Up A Huge Volume Of The Ship, Unlike The Smaller Calibre Transferable Mountings Mostly Bolted To The Deck.