Overhead rails & projectile hoist, TM 9-471 16-inch Seacoast Gun Materiel & Carriage |
Loading 16-inch gun with power rammer. Note shot tongs hanging from rail. This photo was taken at either Btry Townsley or Davis. |
Loading projectile at Btry. #131. Note use of shell cart instead of overhead rail. (U.S. Army) |
Loading powder bags at Btry #131. Red ends contained black powder igniter charge. (U.S. Army) |
16-inch projectiles at Btry #131, Camp Hayden, Washington. |
16-inch 'drill round' at Presidio. Used only for loading and unloading. |
Btry Townsley 16-inch shell niche, 2007. |
Chain hoists in 16-inch shell niche, Btry. Davis, 1940. (GOGA Park Archives) |
Magazine for 12-inch projectiles at Btry #520, Marshall Military Reservation, South Carolina.. |
Magazine for 12-inch projectiles, Corregidor, 1930s |
Magazine for 8-inch projectiles, Btry 405, Oahu, HI. |
16-inch Powder can charges.jpg |
16-inch powder cannister USS Missouri 001.jpg |
16-inch powder charge.jpg |
Btry Townsley powder storage magazine, 2007 |
Rare photo -- Btry Townsley powder magazine door open, 1943. Note powder cans / tanks at right. |
Detail showing powder cans/tanks inside Townsley magazine |
Powder magazine in Btry #405 for 8-inch charges. |
How the navy did it: battleship USS Wisconsin 16-inch magazine |
Battleship North Carolina. Powder tanks in horizontal storage. |
Magazine for 6-inch charges, Btry Gunnison, Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, Gateway NRA. |
16-inch powder bag in GGNRA collection |
Loading powder bags on USS Wisconsin. |
USS New Jersey museum display of 16-inch shell and powder bag |
USS New Jersey topside display of 16-inch shell and powder bag |
USS New Jersey topside display of 16-inch shell and powder bags |
Ft DeRussy Army Museum magazine display. Replica 14-inch shells |
Ft DeRussy Army Museum magazine. Shell in foreground is authentic. So are rails and chain hoist |