12-inch/35-caliber gun
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The 12"/35 caliber gun were used for the primary batteries of the United States Navy's "New Navy" monitors Puritan and Monterey and the battleships Texas and Iowa.
USS Iowa – Crewmen pose by the ship's forward 12"/35 gun turret, 1898. The left-hand gun burst 9 April 1903, killing three crew men.
USS Monterey (BM-6)
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The second USS Monterey was the sole Monterey-class monitor. Laid down by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, 20 December 1889, she was launched 28 April 1891, sponsored by Miss Kate C. Gunn.
12-inch/35-caliber gun
…caliber gun (spoken "twelve-inch-thirty-five–caliber") were used for the primary batteries of the United States Navy's "New Navy" monitors Puritan and Monterey and the battleships Texas and Iowa. The Navy's Policy Board call for a variety of large caliber weapons in 1890, with ranges all the way up to 16-inch…
The USS Monterey at Mare Island Navy Yard.
The USS Monterey at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, circa 1896. The USS Camanche is visible in the background.