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Where Britain stored guns from scrapped warships

Large Royal Navy dockyards and overseas bases provided the warehouse network needed to retain weapons removed from treaty-era scrapping.

Question

Where did the Royal Navy store unused guns from ships scrapped between the wars?

Short answer

They were distributed among large dockyard warehouses at places such as Chatham, Devonport and Portsmouth, with additional capacity at overseas bases.

Notes

Chatham, Devonport and Portsmouth were part of the extensive Royal Navy dockyard estate available between the wars. Their large sites included warehouses able to absorb guns and equipment from scrapped ships. Overseas bases added further storage capacity, making retention a distributed logistics problem rather than a single arsenal.