10"/31 (25.4 cm) Mark 1 Mod 0 and Mod 1
10"/35 (25.4 cm) Mark 1 Mod 2
10"/30 (25.4 cm) Mark 2
Pictures
Updated 12 January 2009
Second-Class Battleship Maine
Note that the barbette protruded beyond
the side of the hull
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
# NH 60255-A
Monitor Mianonomoh M-5 having a 10" (25.4
cm) gun installed around 1890
Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Photograph
Library of Congress Photograph ID LC-D4-20894
Turret covered by sun shade on Mianonomoh
M-5
Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Photograph
Library of Congress Photograph ID LC-D4-20623
Monitor Amphitrite M-2 in the 1890s
The low freeboard was typical of this
type of US warship
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
# NH 58949
Unexploded 10" (25.4 cm) shell fired by
USS Monadnock during her service in Philippine waters
Original caption read "Unexploded ten-inch
shell after penetrating a six-foot trench and killing three of the enemy"
Photograph copyrighted by Perley Fremont
Rockett of San Francisco
Library of Congress Photograph ID LC-USZ62-118717
Page History
19 September 2008 - Benchmark
12 January 2009 - Added picture of Monadnock
shell