16"/50 (40.6 cm) Mark 3 on Army Barbette
Mounting
This weapon is located at the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds Museum in Maryland
Photograph copyrighted by Jed Clear
Plaque for this weapon reads as follows:
Updated 17 January 2009
16"/50 (40.6 cm) Mark 3 on Army Barbette
Mounting
This weapon is located at the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds Museum in Maryland
Photograph copyrighted by Jed Clear
Plaque for this weapon reads as follows:
16 inch Coastal Defense Gun This weapon represents the most powerful coastal defense gun built and is the last remaining example of its type. Originally designed as a naval weapon it is emplaced on an Army barbette mount. The class of battleships it was originally designed for were not built as a result of the Washington Treaty of 1922 and the weapons were transferred to the Army for use in coast defense. This gun was brought to Aberdeen to test powder and projectiles.
Front view of the 16"/50 (40.6 cm) Mark
3 at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum in Maryland
Photograph copyrighted by Jed Clear
Artist's impression of a South Dakota (BB-49)
Class Battleship
Painting by Rose Stokes, 1922
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
# NH 63502-KN
Artist's impression of a Lexington (CC-1)
Class Battlecruiser
Painting by Louise Larned, 1922
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
# NH 41961
Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby inspecting
a 16"/50 (40.6 cm) gun in December 1921
National Photo Company Collection
Library of Congress Photograph ID LC-USZ62-42057
16"/50 (40.6 cm) gun of "Battery Murray"
near the Pacific end of the Panama Canal in 1932
Note the complete lack of concealment
or protection
U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph 111-SC-98611R
16"/50 (40.6 cm) used as Coastal Artillery
at Fort MacArthur near Los Angeles, California
As shown in this picture, during World
War II these coastal guns were given substantial overhead cover
Photograph courtesy of the Fort
MacArthur Museum
16"/50 (40.6 cm) guns at the Washington
Naval Gun Shop whose construction was halted as a result of the Washington
Naval Limitation Treaty
Photograph dated 10 February 1922 and
original caption was "Shop is idle today, employees numbering 1,350 having
been laid off yesterday."
National Photo Company Collection
Library of Congress Photograph ID LC-USZ62-53813
Page History
25 December 2008 - Benchmark
17 January 2009 - Added picture of Secretary
of the Navy Denby inspecting 16" (40.6 cm) gun