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Those crazy fun loving Greeks.......

Greeks? OMG

Brazilian crew of the battleship "Minas Gerais", sometime in the beginning of the twentieth century.

Interesting text and great photo - thanks! Looking back, it's tempting to say that countries are better off when they're the workshops of the world than under post-industrial economies.

Could be a turret for the battleship HMS Monarch as that was under construction at Elswick in 1911.

Oh wow this is a fantastic photo! Very atmospheric! I kinda forgot these things are assembled 'dirty' and then dismantled, painted and placed onto a ship..

13.5 inch calibre Paul. Monarch mounted 10 of these guns in 5 turrets. As a footnote the Japanese battleships Yamato & Musashi mounted the largest guns in history at 18 inch calibre. The armoured plates on the turret faces were 25 inches thick.

That's madness Billy. Mind saying that, it's how warfare was carried out on the seas then. Now it's missiles and aircraft..

Elswick Ordnance Company was a major arms developer before and during World War I. The ordnance and ammunition it manufactured for the British Government were stamped EOC, while guns made for export were usually marked "W.G. Armstrong". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elswick_Ordnance_Company#Elswick_Or...

www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/elswick.htm would suggest that this picture dates from 1898. The same picture (with less cropping) is captioned "View of the XI Shop The North bay, 1898; Original naval Magazine photograph of March 1898."

Thanks for finding these images swanq. I agree that they look like a match to the Bain photo. We'll add this information to the record, the next time we update.