This third survey has been designed by the Ordnance Society to record the many British Breech-Loading and Quick-Firing Guns still in existence across the world.  There are hundreds of guns covering many calibres and types, that are located in Museums, Institutions, Parks and private collections.  Many are unknown outside their foreign ‘home’ and they are a part of our history which has not been studied or recorded in its entirety.

The data is in a similar format to our National Artillery Survey of the UK with a comprehensive range of data on individual guns, including photographs where available, and is also freely available.

The initial single spreadsheet with separate pages for each calibre/gun type, is now updated with the FIFTH version that has TWO additional calibre/gun type pages included.  The total list of 178 guns is include in the categories below:

15-inch, 10-inch, 9.2-inch, 8-inch, 7.5-inch, 6-inch 26cwt & 30cwt, 5.5-inch (Naval), 5.25-inch, 5-inch (Naval), 5-inch (60-pr), 4.7-inch, 4-inch, 25-pr, 18-pr, 17-pr A/Tk, 75mm A/A Gun, 12-pr 12cwt, 6-pr 10cwt, 3-pr Hotchkiss, and 40mm Bofors; all with entries.

There are still some blank pages for the 12-inch, 6-inch (one new entry, the rest still to be transferred), 5.5-inch Medium Gun and a number of other smaller calibres that will be populated as soon as possible.

The FIFTH version of the database is: –

WORLDWIDE SURVEY OF BRITISH B.L. AND Q.F. ARTILLERY v5

 

And the data input/update forms are: –

WORLDWIDE BRITISH ARTILLERY SURVEY DATA INPUT or UPDATE FORM – landscape v2

WORLDWIDE BRITISH ARTILLERY SURVEY DATA INPUT or UPDATE FORM – portrait v2