Gun crew swabbing out and loading a shell into the breech of a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun aboard HMS Iron Duke, an Iron Duke-class Dreadnought...
Gun crew swabbing out and loading a shell into the breech of a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun aboard HMS Iron Duke, an Iron Duke-class Dreadnought...
Pendennis Castle, c1911, . Reconstruction of Half Moon Battery. Loading a 6-inch breech gun. Reconstruction drawing. Pendennis Castle was an...
Heavy breech-loading gun being lowered into its place on its carriage by a powerful steam crane at the Arsenal in Woolwich.
Mk 5.6'' Breech Loading Coastal Defence Gun on Mk1. Disappearing Hydro-Pneumatic Carriage.Joe Glascott on restoration of the Bare Island Historic...
Joe Glascott on restoration of the Bare Island Historic Site, La Perouse.Left to right Mr. Barclay Wiles of the National Parks and Wildlife Service...
William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, c1880. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...
William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, 1874. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...
William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, c1890. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...
Grenada: Close-up of United States soldiers loading a shell into the still smoking breech of a cannon during the United States invasion of the island...
Close-up of muzzle and breech-loading flintlock sporting guns. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9038 - Shooting With Old Guns - unpub.
North China soldier in 1870, Round his waist this soldier carries breech-loading cartridges which are absolutely of no use for the old-type matchlock...
Rappahannock Forge Flintlock, 1775. 2. North and Cheney Flintlock. 3. Henry Deringer Flintlock, army Type. 4. U. S. Harper's Ferry Flintlock, 1804....
Close-up of muzzle and breech-loading flintlock sporting guns. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9038 - Shooting With Old Guns - unpub.
Crewmen begin painting red, white and blue stripes onto the 4 breech-loading 15-inch Mk I gun barrels in the two forward A and B twin gun turrets of...
Close-up of a rare and valuable flintlock musket, the first breech-loading weapon ever to be used by the military. Invented by Major Patrick Ferguson...
Illustrations depicting the history of breech-loading guns including the Mitrailleuse and the dragonneau from the Medieval Period.
Illustration of Mitrailleuse and a dragonneau, examples of early breech-loading weapons from the Medieval Period.
Engraving depicting the breech-loading of an artillery tube at the Krupp Family Steel Works, or Friedrich Krupp AG, Essen, Germany, circa 1880-1890.
Confederate Carbines: 1)Cook Carbine caliber .58, barrel 24", overall length 40". 2)Richmond Carbine, 1863. 3)Tallassee Carbine caliber .58, barrel...
Italian Howitzer 280mm breech-loading station in Edolo, at the end of World War I, photograph, Italy, Edolo, November 1918.
Lord William George Armstrong , a Fellow of the Royal Society and inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong breech-loading gun. Original...
Color lithograph depicting a Spanish soldier as he would have appeared in 1504, he is a rifleman and is shown reloading his breech-loading weapon, he...
Demonstration of the proper technique for loading a shell into the breech-loading cannon designed by Boyteaux and Dangerfield. Although many were...
French soldier loading his breech-loading flintlock rifle. Napoleonic wars, 19th century. Historical reenactment.
Illustration shows the new 6 inch breech loading rifled artillery piece deployed on the US Navy's warships. The illustration appeared in the 1888...
Illustration shows a jacket being fitted onto a 6 inch breech loading rifle tube, part of artillery pieces used by the US Navy. The illustration...
1890s 1891 ARMORED CRUISER US NAVY GUN PRACTICE SAILORS LOADING 6 INCH BREECH LOADING RIFLE ARTILLERY GUN
School of artillery Officer course at ***** loading 18 pounder of death in the breech of a field gun during a practice shoot. August 17, 1940. .
Inch naval cannon mounted on a turntable, with protective shields and automatic opening-closing breech loading mechanism, illustration, Italy, 20th...
Military cannon that could be loaded from the rear was a major advancement. It meant soldiers could load the gun without having to step in front of...
French soldiers firing breech-loading flintlock rifles, Italian campaign, 1796-1797. Napoleonic wars, 18th century. Historical reenactment.
Guns with broke mouth, wrought iron guns, the stand on which the guns 3 and 4 are mounted, breech-loading gun, illustration from the magazine The...
Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun, dated 1866, Paris, French, Paris, Steel, wood , gold, L. 44 1/8 in. , Firearms-Guns-Wheellock, The...
Serviceman works beside 1887 UK-made Armstrong 5-inch breech-loading cannons outside the Armed Forces Museum in Taipei on October 20, 2009. Despite...
Breech-loading rifled field-howitzer, inspected by General Asif Pasha and his staff, Turkish artillery experiments with dynamite shells at the...
Bronze powder chambers from early breech-loading guns. 16th century. Their rear locking lug removed to being set up in a vertical position. This...
Double-barrelled Dragonneau, used at the siege of Santander in 1511. A breech loading artillery piece.
Wrought-iron breech-loading gun and carriage, from the 'Mary Rose' warship, 1542. Drawing by J B Northam, executed 1929, showing a wrought-iron...
Wood engraving from 'The Romance of Industry and Invention�, by Robert Cochrane, London, 1899. In 1840, William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of...
Watercolour painted by W Fred Mitchell in 1903, depicting HMS �Glasgow� at sea in 1861. This 3000-ton vessel was the fifth Royal Navy warship to bear...
