Updated 04 February 2013
USS Idaho (BB-42) about 1920
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
# NH 53203
USS Idaho (BB-42) being regunned in late
1920s by Crane Ship No. 1 (ex-USS Kearsarge)
Note the plated over secondary casemates
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
# NH 43457
USS Idaho (BB-42) being regunned in late
1920s by Crane Ship No. 1 (ex-USS Kearsarge)
Note that the gun house needed to be dismantled
in order to change out the guns
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
# NH 43458
Cutaway sketch of 14"/50 (35.6 cm) Three-gun
turret
Although official documents note 300 projectiles
per mounting, there appear to be 374 projectiles in this sketch including
55 ready rounds in the gunhouse
Sketch from "Naval Ordnance 1939" an Annapolis
Textbook
World War I 14" (35.6 cm) Railway Gun in
April 1920
National Photo Company Collection
Library of Congress Photograph ID LC-DIG-npcc-28937
World War I 14" (35.6 cm) Navy Railway
Gun, this one is now at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington DC
Photograph copyrighted by Charley Seavey
US Army Model 1920 Railroad Gun in 1924
with Naval 14" (35.6 cm) gun. Note the carriage outriggers and the
projectiles in the foreground.
U.S. Army Ordnance Department Photograph
No. 19489
12 January 2009 - New datapage
04 February 2013 - Added cross-sectional
sketch