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Photo #: NH 43480
USS Siboney (ID # 2999)
Ship's after port side gun ready for loading, during target practice
at sea in August 1918.
This gun is a 5"/51, Mark VIII, with a Mark VII-2 breech.
Siboney carried four of these weapons.
Photographed by Machinist John G. Krieger, USN.
Donation of John G. Krieger, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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