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Australian Army Museum of Western Australia > Records

Pre 1914, Western Australia, Perth, Kings Park Bottle Guns

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MOBILITY AND FIREPOWER

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Part of a series of images relating to “Kings Park Bottle Guns"

Historical information

The Kings Park guns, familiarly known as “bottle guns”, bore the official designation of RML (Rifled Muzzle Loading), 7 inch (calibre) 6.5 ton, Mk 1 guns. They fired a 50.8 kg shell to a range of about 3650 metres.

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cwa-org-32-54-266

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Original images are in the Collection of the Royal Australian Artillery Historical Society of Western Australia

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Friday, 7 February, 2025

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Bottle

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Bottle 1

Bottle 2

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