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The first quick-firing light gun was the [[1-inch Nordenfelt gun]], built in Britain from 1880. The gun was expressly designed to defend larger warships against the new small fast-moving [[torpedo boat]]s in the late 1870s to the early 1880s and was an enlarged version of the successful rifle-calibre Nordenfelt hand-cranked "machine gun" designed by [[Helge Palmcrantz]]. The gun fired a solid steel bullet with hardened tip and brass jacket.
It was superseded for anti-torpedo boat defence in the mid-1880s by the new generation of [[Hotchkiss et Cie|Hotchkiss]] and Nordenfelt "[[British ordnance terms#Fixed QF|QF]]" guns of 47-mm and 57-mm calibre firing exploding "[[British ordnance terms#Common pointed|common pointed]]" shells weighing {{convert|3–6
The French firm Hotchkiss produced the [[QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss|QF 3 pounder]] as a light 47-mm naval gun from 1886. The gun was ideal for defending against small fast vessels such as torpedo boats and was immediately adopted by the RN as the "Ordnance QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss".<ref>British forces traditionally denoted smaller ordnance by the weight of its standard projectile, in this case approximately {{convert|3|lb|kg}}.</ref> It was built under licence by [[Armstrong Whitworth#Elswick Ordnance Company|Elswick Ordnance Company]].
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