Friday, August 25, 2023

A 5.25-inch dual-purpose gun turret removed from the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Philadelphia, 1943

 


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  1. British shipyards were so overwhelmed during WWII that the Royal Navy sent a lot of business to America's east coast shipyards.
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  2. A pair of them flanking my driveway would be fetching.

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    1. That's what I was thinking but I only need one for my front yard.

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  3. Looks like the Argonaut is getting a new bow and/or stern installed. And "Dual-Purpose" means it can fire at surface targets as well as aerial targets.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Argonaut_(61)

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    1. Both, she was torpedoed by an Italian sub, with enough damage that both needed to be replaced.

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  4. It could be used to shoot planes or ships, you know, "two" things.....

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  5. Like popping a cork out of a champagne bottle

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  6. "Dual purpose" meant specifically that its elevation gearing could point high for AA *and* low for surface/shore.

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  7. Anything fired up in the air will come down. So it seems all of those are the same purpose.

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  8. ---don't ferget them little slanty-eyed jap bastards-------

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  9. They should have kept it there on the dock, loaded, for local crime suppression.

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