8-inch/55-caliber gun
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The 8"/55 caliber gun formed the main battery of United States Navy heavy cruisers and two early aircraft carriers. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun barrel had an internal diamete
No. 2 turret of USS New Orleans following a Japanese torpedo-initiated explosion of the forward magazine during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942.
The rounded roofs of early Mark 9 twin and triple turrets of USS Salt Lake City and USS Pensacola with the later turrets of USS New Orleans on the right.
8"/55 caliber Mark 9 guns on USS Lexington
The heavy cruiser USS Helena fires her 8"/55 caliber Mark 15 guns at enemy forces ashore on the Korean Peninsula in August 1950 during the Korean War.
Baltimore-class cruiser
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The Baltimore-class heavy cruisers were a class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy commissioned during and shortly after World War II. Fourteen Baltimores were completed, more than any other
8-inch/55-caliber gun
…Wichita Mk 12 guns in three 314-ton triple turrets 14 Baltimore-class (c. 1941) heavy cruisers: 1 of 14: Baltimore Mk 12 guns in three 300-ton triple turrets 13 of 14: Boston, Canberra, Quincy, Pittsburgh, Saint Paul…
USS Bremerton (CA-130) in 1955
USS Bremerton in drydock
USS Baltimore during her reactivation
USS Pittsburgh with her bow ripped off