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Subdeacon Joe

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Yeah,   FB is worthless!  Everyone knows that those are three gun mounts, not triple turrets. 

 

"

14-inch (35.6 cm) projectiles on deck of the U.S. Navy battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40), while the battleship was replenishing her ammunition supply prior to the invasion of Guam, July 1944. 

The photograph looks forward on the starboard side, with triple 14"/50 gun turrets at left. Note floater nets stowed atop the turrets."

 

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Amazing how big those projectiles are when compared to the men standing or working nearby them. 

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1 minute ago, Pat Riot said:

Amazing how big those projectiles are when compared to the men standing or working nearby them. 

 

And how small they are compared to the ship. 

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2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Those shells are 1100-1500 lbs. They need to be stowed below decks.

Tuff sailors then...Pick them up and toss them on the shoulder and walk them down stairs....

 

Texas Lizard

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1 minute ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Easy if there’s a marine contingent on board.

 

Carried two at a time. 

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Those aren't shells. They are bullets. Projectiles. You put that in the gun and then you add the powder behind it.

 

Kind of like a Civil War breechloading rifle.

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ya , unless i was told rong the projectiles were hoisted to the breech by elevators and the charges [bags of powder were as well then each was pressed into the breech , these were not that dissimilar to the civil war cannon in that every gun had a crew and each had a job , not wanting to be on the receiving end of these , 

 

im still learning tho as my father was AAC my FIL was navy [submariner] so correct me if im wrong here , 

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4 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Wrong church, right pew…. 14 in guns.   ))))

 

im sure the mechanics were the same, just older.

 

 

 

I figured it would be similar.  

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