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From: gkr@trout.nosc.mil (Gregory K. Ramsey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: battleships
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.050058.6693@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 05:00:58 GMT
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From: gkr@trout.nosc.mil (Gregory K. Ramsey)

In article <1991Feb27.015634.19142@cbnews.att.com> welty@sol.crd.ge.com (richard welty) writes:
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>From: welty@sol.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
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>according to _The Iowa Class Battleships_ (Malcolm Muir, Blandford Press,
>UK, distributed by Sterling Press in the US), in addition to the 36
>barrels on the 4 Iowa class ships, in 1981 there were 33 spare barrels which
>are ready for use; 24 at Hawthorne, Nevada, and 9 at Subic Bay in the
>Philipines.  there were at that time 9 barrels at the Dalgren range, 3 in
>storage and 4 for testing, and there was an additional barrel at the Yuma
>Proving grounds.  

As of my last drill weekend (9-10 Feb) there were 6-9 16"
barrels sitting in a storage lot on the Long Beach Naval
Shipyard. (They can be seen from the city street along the
front of the base)

I was once told that these were the ones I saw in the
Phillipines on my last WESTPAC in 1981, but I can't confirm
that.

Greg