Arrangement of Guns on Naval Vessels

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Illustation of the typical arrangement of guns on a WWII battleship, cruiser, and destroyer from Naval Ordnance and Gunnery, NAVPERS 16116, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Training Division, May, 1944:

Arrangement of guns on a battleship

Arrangement of guns on a battleship

Arrangement of guns on a cruiser

Arrangement of guns on a cruiser

Arrangement of guns on a destroyer

Arrangement of guns on a destroyer

 

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2 Responses to Arrangement of Guns on Naval Vessels

  1. Pat Flannery says:
    October 19, 2010 at 12:28 am

    Thanks for making the illustrations clickable for enlargement; I was having a hard time squinting at the non-clickable ones and trying to figure out what they showed; this is a big improvement to the blog.

  2. plz says:
    July 8, 2011 at 11:18 am

    Love these old navy manuals. Back when you had to publish everything cuz no internet.

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