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This RML 64-pounder 71-cwt stands outside the Wardroom at HMNZS Philomel. Originally four of these were at Fort Victoria in Devonport. The NZ Government purchased them in 1885 after they had been declared obsolete by the Royal Navy in 1879.

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Photo courtesy Wally Ruffell

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