North Carolina class - Magazine Capacity
Is anyone able to point me in the direction of a source which specifies the main armament magazine capacity of the North Carolina class?CheersDavid.
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Pretty sure that Friedman talks about it in his US Battleships book. . . . .I am at work currently however
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In US Battleships - history of design and development, appendix "Us battleships data list" it is stated that it was 100 shells per gun. Possibly it was "peace time" shell load, but it is not stated...
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On the navweaps entry for that gun it gives 130 rounds, which is I believe typical for a USN fast battleship.
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Garzke and Dulin in "Battleships 2nd Edition" page 50 say a total of "about 1,325 rounds" which is 147 rounds per gun. The total loadout of the new 16" battleships varied and different sources will...
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For US and British ships this information is typically shown on the ship's General Arrangement Plans. The numbers shown there -- especially for smaller items such as anti-aircraft guns, etc., --...
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In South Dakota class ammo capacity: Turret 1: 360 Turret 2: 420 Turret 3: 390 total: 1170, so 130 shells per gun. IN turret 2 ~90 shells were very difficult to take and were considered as reserve for...
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I took a look at Gene Slover's US Navy Pages, (RIP Gene), and he had loaded a copy of BuOrd's OP-755 on there, which covers the 16"/45 3-gun turrrets of the North Carolina and South Dakota classes....
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