The 14-inch/45-caliber gun, (spoken "fourteen-inch-forty-five-caliber"[citation needed]), whose variations were known initially as the Mark 1, 2, 3, and
The Vickers14-inch 45-calibre gun was designed and built by Vickers and initially installed on the battlecruiser Kongō which it was building for the Imperial
British equivalent Vickers14inch/45 naval gun contemporary Vickers-designed Japanese equivalent DiGiulian, Tony (15 August 2008). "14"/50 (35.6 cm) Mark
41 10-inch (254 mm) naval gun was designed by Vickers specifically for the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was of a very similar design to the Vickers-built