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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 99181
USS Fairmont (ID # 2429)
Ship's after (six-inch) gun, 1918.
Inscription on the original print's reverse reads: "Crew
made 8 hits 17000 yds at 12 knots". If this statement is
correct, this would have been an extraordinary feat of gunnery.
Collection of Grant S. Ray, who served in Fairmont during
World War I.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 490 pixels
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