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.
See the change of color on the muzzle? When the rifling is worn out, rather than make a whole new barrel, they punch out the center and slip in a long sleeve. You warm the tube and ice the sleeve, slip fit.
Perhaps the USS Maryland. Range clock present would indicate pre WW2 trim.
ReplyDelete"...with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time."
DeleteLooks more like New York or Texas turrets.
ReplyDeleteThat's either Texas or New York. The shape of the turrets and the top of the bridge/location of the range clock match for that class.
ReplyDeleteTexas is coming out of a refurb in Galveston. I need to visit her once she's in her new home.
yes , the Texas. i stand corrected.
ReplyDelete1:9 twist? that's one turn in nine feet
ReplyDeleteSince I am not a US Navy veteran nor a navy aficionado, I thought that all of our old battleships had three-gun turrets.
ReplyDeleteThe first class with triple turrets were the Nevada's
DeleteSee the change of color on the muzzle? When the rifling is worn out, rather than make a whole new barrel, they punch out the center and slip in a long sleeve. You warm the tube and ice the sleeve, slip fit.
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