State Gun Carriage Of The Royal Navy
The Royal Navy State Funeral Gun Carriage is a converted BL 12-pounder 6 cwt gun, Ordnance, BL, 12 pdr 6 cwt, MK II, gun carriage which has been used in the UK to bear the coffin at the funeral processions of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Sir Winston Churchill, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Lord Mountbatten, and Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II. It is traditionally pulled by members of the Royal Navy; when not in use, it is kept at the Stone frigate, shore establishment HMS Excellent (shore establishment), HMS ''Excellent''. A smaller version, known as the Portsmouth Gun Carriage, has beem used at the ceremonial funerals of several senior naval officers in the 20th century. Manufacture The gun carriage is from a British Army BL 12-pounder 6 cwt gun, Ordnance, BL, 12 pdr 6 cwt, MK II, gun and weighs . The carriage was made by Vickers, Vickers, Sons and Maxim in 1896 and entered storage at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, being ...
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