The QF 4.7 inch Gun Mark V originated as a
45-calibre naval gun designed by the
Elswick Ordnance Company for export customers and known as the Pattern Y.
[DiGiulian]
United Kingdom service
The
Royal Navy did not adopt the gun, but several were adopted by the army as
coast defence guns around the United Kingdom from 1900 onwards.
[ In World War I the UK acquired 620 ]troop ships
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, under the designation Mark V*. Many of these guns were used again in World War II on defensively armed merchant ships and troop ships.
Notable actions
On 10 March 1917 the crew of a single gun on the refrigerated
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cargo liner
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fought a notable action against the heavily-armed German commerce raider . They managed to set the ''Möwe'' on fire and inflicted significant damage before the ''Otaki'' was sunk. ''Otaki's'' Master Archibald Bisset Smith
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went down with his ship and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for refusing to surrender his ship.
See also
*Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun
12 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun was a Japanese naval gun and coast defense gun used on destroyers, and torpedo boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Design and development
The 12 cm/45 gun designed in 1895 was an i ...
version in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1918
* QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I – IV 40-calibre version adopted by the Royal Navy
* List of naval guns
*Brixham Battery
Brixham Battery and Battery Gardens are an open space on the sea shore in Brixham, Devon at . They are a traditional observation point for Brixham trawler races, both past and present.
The site of Battery Gardens was first used as a battery in ...
World War II Emergency Coastal Defence Battery using this gun
Notes
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Naval guns of the United Kingdom
120 mm artillery
Elswick Ordnance Company
Coastal artillery