Photo #: NH 81482
Sixteen-inch, 50 Caliber, Mark 2, Mod. 1 Gun Barrel
On display in East Willard Park, Washington Navy Yard, D.C.,
in October 1972. This gun is Number 111, built at the Washington
Navy Yard in 1922 for planned installation on the abortive South
Dakota (BB 49-54) class battleships and Lexington
(CC 1-6) class battle cruisers.
Note railway trucks supporting the gun barrel.
The two sixteen-inch projectiles displayed alongside the gun
are inert shells fired by USS New Jersey into San Clemente
Island, California, during shore bombardment practice in 1968.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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