Where did the Royal Navy store unused guns from ships scrapped between the wars?
Short answerThey were distributed among large dockyard warehouses at places such as Chatham, Devonport and Portsmouth, with additional capacity at overseas bases.
NotesChatham, 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.