14"/45 (35.6 cm) Vickers Mark "A"
14"/45 (35.6 cm) 43rd Year Type
14"/45 (35.6 cm) 41st Year Type
36 cm/45 (14") 41st Year Type
Pictures
Updated 01 May 2012
IJN Kirishima in early 1930s
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
# NH 44615
Forward Turrets of Hiei
Vice-Admiral Takahashi Ibô posing
on Yamashiro in 1934
Note the 12.7
cm/40 AA guns in the after superstructure
Central Press Photograph
Sub-caliber practice shoot on Yamashiro
in the 1930s
Photograph copyrighted by Radio Times
Hulton Picture Library
"B" Turret on Hyuga after she was sunk
in August 1945
USN Photograph via Cody Images
Base of 36 cm (14") projectile that struck
USS San Francisco (CA-38) on 13 November 1942
Note that projectile is boat-tailed behind
the driving bands and that the top of the fragment "mushroomed" when it
impacted the barbette of Turret II
Base of projectile was about 12.5 inches
(32 cm) in diameter
USN Photograph courtesy of Researcher@Large
Shell Cages for Japanese Battleships