6-inch/47-caliber gun
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The 6-inch/47-caliber Mark 16 gun was used in the main batteries of several pre-war and World War II US Navy light cruisers. They were primarily mounted in triple turrets and used against surface targ
Three forward turrets and empty cartridge cases on USS Brooklyn (CL-40) after she had bombarded Licata, Sicily, during the early hours of the Allied invasion, 10 July 1943
Brooklyn-class cruiser
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The Brooklyn-class cruiser was a class of nine light cruisers built for the United States Navy between 1935 and 1938. Armed with five triple 6-inch gun turrets, they mounted more main battery guns tha
6-inch/47-caliber gun
…were known according to the class of ship the turret was to be mounted on. A 6-inch triple turret weighed 154–167 short tons (138–149 long tons) in the Brooklyn-class cruisers and 165–173 short tons (147–154 long tons) in the Cleveland-class and Fargo-class cruisers, and each rifle barrel was 25 feet (7.6 m) long…
USS Honolulu (CL-48) in 1944