And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, August 25, 2023
A 5.25-inch dual-purpose gun turret removed from the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Philadelphia, 1943
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.
British shipyards were so overwhelmed during WWII that the Royal Navy sent a lot of business to America's east coast shipyards.
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A pair of them flanking my driveway would be fetching.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was thinking but I only need one for my front yard.
DeleteLooks 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.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Argonaut_(61)
Both, she was torpedoed by an Italian sub, with enough damage that both needed to be replaced.
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ReplyDeleteIt could be used to shoot planes or ships, you know, "two" things.....
ReplyDeleteLike popping a cork out of a champagne bottle
ReplyDeleteShore bombardment. That's three.
ReplyDelete"Dual purpose" meant specifically that its elevation gearing could point high for AA *and* low for surface/shore.
ReplyDeleteAnything fired up in the air will come down. So it seems all of those are the same purpose.
ReplyDelete---don't ferget them little slanty-eyed jap bastards-------
ReplyDeleteThey should have kept it there on the dock, loaded, for local crime suppression.
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