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From: JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Larry W. Jewell)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Bobtailed Battlewagons
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Date: 7 Feb 91 01:22:17 GMT
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From:     "Larry W. Jewell" <JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In regards to removing the turret from an "Iowa", you have to break the
job down into manageable parts.  The 2000-ton figure quoted for the
turret includes the barbette, that portion of the armour protection that
extends from the bottom of the turret to magazines and allows for passage
of the power and shot to the guns.  You could separate them at the "Turret
ring", strip the internals from the turret and just barely get it clear
of the hull.
    For an intact extraction, the only rig I know of would be at the
Sumitomo Shipyard at Yokosuka, Japan (where they built the Japanese Musashi
class BB's).  The JN's claimed they could put my cruiser on the flight deck of
the Midway with that setup.
    As a side line, the fights that developed over the 5" turrets removed
from the BB's were quite interesting, but I never found out which country
finally got them.  Anybody know where they went?
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  Larry W. Jewell                              JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU