page_title: BL 6-inch Mk XI naval gun
section_title: Surviving examples
hierarchical_section_title: BL 6-inch Mk XI naval gun / Surviving examples
caption_attribution_description: English: One of HMAS Melbourne's 6-inch guns on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. After the ship was decommissioned, this gun was emplaced in the Torres Straits islands until being transported to Nowra and restored for display
context_page_description: The BL 6-inch Mark XI naval gun was a British 50 calibres high-velocity naval gun which was mounted as primary armament on cruisers and secondary armament on pre-dreadnought battleships from 1906 onwards.
context_section_description: RGF gun No. 2035 of 1905, and 1 other gun at Malgaskop, Saldanha Bay, South Africa
  VSM gun No. 2305 of 1912 formerly at Port Wakefield Proof Range, north of Adelaide, and since 2006 at B42 gun emplacement at Lower Georges Heights, Sydney Australia
  A coast defence gun at East Point Military museum, Darwin, Australia
  One of the HMAS Sydney guns at Leighton Battery, Fremantle, Western Australia
  One of HMAS Melbourne's guns at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra, NSW, Australia
caption: One of HMAS Melbourne's guns on display in 2015
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