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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.
When reactivated and modernized in the 1980s, each battleship retained the original battery of nine 16-inch (406 mm) guns, but the secondary battery on each battleship was reduced from ten twin-gun mounts and twenty guns to six twin-gun mounts with 12 guns to allow for the installation of two platforms for the Tomahawk missiles.
These guns fire high explosive- and armor-piercing shells and can fire a 16-inch shell approximately 23.4 nautical miles (43.3 km; 26.9 mi). [35] [36] The guns are housed in three 3-gun turrets: two forward of the battleship's superstructure and one aft, in a configuration known as "2-A-1".
6"/50 caliber Mark 6 and 8 guns United States: 1900s - World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) 6"/53 caliber Mark 12, 14, 15 and 18 guns United States: 1920s - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) 6"/47 caliber Mark 16 and 17 gun United States: World War II - 1970s 155 mm (6.1 in) Canon de 155 mm Modèle 1920 50-caliber France: World War II
Napoléon (1850), the world's first steam-powered battleship. A ship of the line was a large, unarmored wooden sailing ship which mounted a battery of up to 120 smoothbore guns and carronades, which came to prominence with the adoption of line of battle tactics in the early 17th century and the end of the sailing battleship's heyday in the 1830s.
The U.S. Navy had the 16"/50-caliber Mark 2 guns left over from the canceled Lexington-class battlecruisers and South Dakota-class battleships of the early 1920s. However it was already apparent that the Mark 2 was too heavy to arm the North Carolina and new South Dakota (1939) battleship classes which had to adhere to the 35,000 ton standard displacement set by the Second London Naval Treaty.
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14-inch/45-caliber guns aboard the battleship Nevada fire at Utah Beach during Operation Overlord in 1944. The guns on the two battleships of the New York -class, New York and Texas , the first ship of the Nevada -class, Nevada and the first ship of the Pennsylvania -class, Pennsylvania , saw service in World War II in the role of shore ...