QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss

QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss

Infobox Weapon
name=QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss


caption=Typical Royal Navy deck mounting, 1915
origin=FRA
type=Naval gun
Coast-defence gun
Anti-aircraft gun
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is_artillery=yes
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is_UK=yes
service=1886 - 1950s
used_by=FRA
UK
USA
RUS
wars=WWI
designer=Hotchkiss et Cie
design_date=1885
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production_date=
number=2,950 (UK)
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length=
part_length=74.06 inch (1.88 m) bore (40 cal)
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cartridge=Fixed QF. Shell convert|3.3|lb|abbr=on, Steel Shell, Common Lyddite
caliber=convert|47|mm|in|sing=on|sigfig=4
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rate=
velocity=1,873 ft/s (571 m/s)
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max_range=4,000 yards (3,657 m)
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breech=vertical sliding wedge
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The QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss was a light 47-mm naval gun introduced in 1886 to defend against new small fast vessels such as torpedo boats, and later submarines. It was also used ashore as a coast defence gun and later occasionally as an anti-aircraft gun.

French service


United Kingdom service

United Kingdom History

In 1886 this gun was the first of the modern QF artillery to be adopted by the Royal Navy as Ordnance QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss. It was adopted at the time together with the very similar Nordenfelt version, but the Nordenfelt gun eventually fell out of favour.

By World War I the Hotchkiss gun was obsolete, and was gradually replaced in its class by the more powerful Ordnance QF 3 pounder Vickers gun. But many were brought back into service on merchant vessels used for auxiliary duties in World War II, or as subcalibre guns for gunnery practice until the 1950s.


United Kingdom ammunition

Russian service

US service

References

*I.V. Hogg & L.F. Thurston, British Artillery Weapons & Ammunition 1914-1918. London: Ian Allan, 1972.

ee also

*List of artillery#Naval_guns

External links

* [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_3pounder_H_mk1.htm British Hotchkiss 3-pdr (1.4 kg) (1.85"/40 (47 mm)) QF Marks I and II]


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