6-inch Mk-XXIV
Bore: 6-inch
Range: 25,000 yards
In service: 1942-1957
Number in Service: 3
Purchased during World War Two, these guns were used at Godley Head in Christchurch. They were scrapped in the 1950s and no examples remain in New Zealand.
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Description: One of the gun emplacements, 12 January 1943
Reference: Gun firing from Godley Head, at the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury. Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives. Ref: 1/4-000127-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22625564
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