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class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Place of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Service history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">In service</th><td class="infobox-data">1904–37</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Used by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a> <br /> Royal Navy<br /> Italian Navy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Production history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Designer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vickers" title="Vickers">Vickers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Manufacturer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vickers" title="Vickers">Vickers</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Specifications</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Mass</th><td class="infobox-data">22 tons</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Gun_barrel" title="Gun barrel">Barrel</a> length</th><td class="infobox-data">450-inch (11.430 m) bore (45 calibres)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Shell_(projectile)" title="Shell (projectile)">Shell</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">IJN</a> service : 518 pounds (235 kg)<br /><a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">RN</a> service : 500 pounds (227 kg)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Caliber" title="Caliber">Calibre</a></th><td class="infobox-data">10-inch (254 mm)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Elevation_(ballistics)" title="Elevation (ballistics)">Elevation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">-5 / +30 degrees</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Gun_laying" title="Gun laying">Traverse</a></th><td class="infobox-data">+80 / -80 degrees</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Rate_of_fire" title="Rate of fire">Rate of fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1.5 rounds per minute</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Muzzle_velocity" title="Muzzle velocity">Muzzle velocity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2,657 ft/s (810 m/s)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Effective firing range</th><td class="infobox-data">26,900-yard (24,597 m) at 30° elevation</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Vickers 10 inch naval gun</b> was used on <a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">battleships</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armoured_cruiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Armoured cruiser">armoured cruisers</a> built during the first decade of the 20th century. They were used as the <b>Type 41 10-inch /45-caliber</b> aboard the British-built semi-<a href="/wiki/Dreadnought" title="Dreadnought">dreadnought</a> <a href="/wiki/Katori-class_battleship" title="Katori-class battleship"><i>Katori</i>-class</a> battleships and the natively-built <a href="/wiki/Satsuma-class_battleship" title="Satsuma-class battleship"><i>Satsuma</i>-class</a> battleships of the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vickers_10-inch_45-calibre_naval_gun&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Japanese_service">Japanese service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vickers_10-inch_45-calibre_naval_gun&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Japanese service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Type 41 10-inch (254 mm) <a href="/wiki/Naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval gun">naval gun</a> was designed by <a href="/wiki/Vickers_Limited" title="Vickers Limited">Vickers</a> specifically for the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was of a very similar design to the Vickers-built Mark VII guns produced initially for the <a href="/wiki/Chilean_Navy" title="Chilean Navy">Chilean Navy</a> and later used in <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> service. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Katori-class_battleship" title="Katori-class battleship"><i>Katori</i> class</a> used these weapons as <a href="/wiki/Secondary_armament" title="Secondary armament">secondary armament</a>. The <i>Satsuma</i> class was originally intended to be built with all 12-inch (300 mm) guns, which would have made this class the first true all big gun <a href="/wiki/Dreadnought" title="Dreadnought">dreadnought</a> class in the world; however, budgetary constraints forced the Japanese navy to use a mixture of 12 and 10-inch guns, as per the previous <i>Kashima</i> class. </p><p>The gun was officially designated as "Type 41" from the 41st year of the reign of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Meiji" title="Emperor Meiji">Emperor Meiji</a> on 25 December 1908. It was further re-designated in centimeters on 5 October 1917 as part of the standardization process for the Imperial Japanese Navy to the <a href="/wiki/Metric_system" title="Metric system">metric system</a>. </p><p>After the scrapping of both the <i>Katori</i> class and the <i>Satsuma</i> class under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty" title="Washington Naval Treaty">Washington Naval Treaty</a> in 1923, the guns were salvaged and used in <a href="/wiki/Coastal_artillery" title="Coastal artillery">coastal artillery</a> batteries. 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Britain took the ship over in 1903 as <a href="/wiki/HMS_Triumph_(1903)" title="HMS Triumph (1903)">HMS <i>Triumph</i></a>, and the guns were designated <b>BL 10 inch Mk VII</b> in UK service. These guns fired a 500-pound (226.8 kg) projectile using 146 pounds 12 ounces (66.56 kg) of cordite MD propellant.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Italian_service">Italian service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vickers_10-inch_45-calibre_naval_gun&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Italian service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first two of the <a href="/wiki/Pisa-class_cruiser" title="Pisa-class cruiser"><i>Pisa</i>-class</a> armoured cruisers were each fitted with four of these guns.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See 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href="/wiki/BL_15-inch_Mk_I_naval_gun" title="BL 15-inch Mk I naval gun">BL 15-inch Mk I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BL_18-inch_Mk_I_naval_gun" title="BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun">BL 18-inch Mk I</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Capital_ship" title="Capital ship">Capital ship</a> main armament</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Vickers 10-inch 45 cal.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EOC_10-inch_45-calibre_naval_gun" title="EOC 10-inch 45-calibre naval gun">EOC 10-inch 45 cal.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BL_12-inch_Mk_VIII_naval_gun" title="BL 12-inch Mk VIII naval gun">BL 12-inch Mk VIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_12-inch_40-calibre_naval_gun" title="Armstrong Whitworth 12-inch 40-calibre naval gun">BL 12-inch Mk IX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BL_12-inch_Mk_X_naval_gun" title="BL 12-inch Mk X naval gun">BL 12-inch Mk X</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BL_12-inch_Mk_XI_%E2%80%93_XII_naval_gun" title="BL 12-inch Mk XI – XII naval gun">BL 12-inch Mk XI & XII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EOC_12-inch_45-calibre_naval_gun" title="EOC 12-inch 45-calibre naval gun">EOC 12-inch 45 cal. 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