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A modern naval gun turret (A French 100 mm naval gun on the Maillé-Brézé pictured) allows firing of the cannons via remote control. Loading of ammunition is also often done by automatic mechanisms. A gun turret (or simply turret) is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn ...
The turret extended either four decks (Turrets 1 and 3) or five decks (Turret 2) down. The lower spaces contained the equipment required to rotate the turret and to elevate the guns attached to each turret. At the bottom of the turret were rooms which were used for handling the projectiles and storing the powder bags used to fire them.
The 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns of the forward turret of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fire at enemy targets ashore on the Korean Peninsula on 30 January 1952 during the Korean War. Employees working with the automatic 16-inch powder stacking machine at Naval Ammunition Depot Hingham , Mass. during World War II.
English: Iowa class battleship main battery turret. Based on jpg image 16in Gun Turret.jpg. Based on: Cut away of a 16-in gun turret. Site states that "These photos are arranged in chronological order and are believed to be all declassified official USN photos." Source {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}}
USS Nevada (BB-36), the third United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships.Launched in 1914, Nevada was a leap forward in dreadnought technology; four of her new features would be included on almost every subsequent US battleship: triple gun turrets, [c] oil in place of coal for fuel, geared steam turbines for greater range ...
The main turrets had 16 in (410 mm) armour on the faces, 11 in (280 mm) on the sides, 7.25 in (184 mm) on the roof and 9 in (230 mm) on the rear with 15 in (380 mm) around the barbettes. The secondary turrets, however, had only 1 in (25 mm) NC all round over 0.5 in (12.7 mm) structural steel plates. [3] [4] [page needed]
3,000 × 2,123 (2.2 MB) TomStar81: Released to Public ID: DN-SC-90-05388 Service Depicted: Navy A photo taken from the bridge captures the explosion of the No. 2 16-inch gun turret aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61). It was later determined that 47 sailors were killed by the blast, 21:54, 4 April 2006: 900 × 758 (134 KB) Makthorpe