Battleship guns

How a Warships turrets operate

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[timpovikings]

These are KG V class.

Nelson/Rodney didn't have the counterweights built around the breech or the recuperators on top. This cage is also unique. QEs and Vanguard had an arrangement whereby the loading number sat alongside the cage and rammed shell, then opened a trap to drop the first and second half charges of cordite into the space the shell had been in, and rammed them. External shots are almost certainly QEs.

Vanguard turret drill appears in Sink The Bizmark - and it's awesome!

[WELLBRAN]

As far as I know this clip depicts HMS Howe, contrary to popular youtube opinion, so thanks for that KGV confirmation

[veritascrusader]

These clips are from a variety of diffent ships especially the exterior ones, but the turret interior shots look like a KGV to me.

[WELLBRAN]

KGV is HMS Howe

[Detoyato]

Im only 13 Years old Man. Im just Addicted to World War 2 Battleships. Thats why I know Much about their Guns

[WELLBRAN]

Even more remarkable

[Apparatchik68]

Poor old Vanguard - if the Brits had had her at the Falklands, Pt Stanley airport would have been out of action quick smart, and the Harriers could have stayed as CAP units.

[derbbus]

The last 13.5 BL gun to be made is now on display at the Royal Amouries museum at Fort Nelson Portsmouth.

I've often looked at it and tried to figure out how the breech loading routine worked.

Thanks to this clip I now know.

You can see it on google Earth.

Its at the front by the road.

[ZerokillerOppel1]

@Bullettube High time the full movie came available by now!!!!

[hkmp5k]

Leave them britches alone... what'd they ever do to you!!!!

Is that just an odd pronunciation of breeches?

[adames999]

I'm assuming the cover for the head is used for the hair. And if people are asking why their faces are exposed, there is no hair on your face that can burn off.

[bassistmatt]

@Detoyato the ww1 brits have very elegant tripod masts, carried it through to ww2, a trademark. german ww1 ships have pole masts. the two are very distinctive. yep they look great! noticed this check out the Bayern class ww1 german battleships' turrets then look at the gun turrets on ww2 Bismarck class.

[Detoyato]

@bassistmatt uhuh!. And the WWI era ships were by far and away the most awesome. Ships like the Lutzow the Iron Duke the Moltke and the Lion. Great ships.

[bassistmatt]

@Detoyato great to hear, i got into them at the same age, they are fascinating. modern naval ships dont have the same grace and fearsomeness the battleships have! great video, very interesting

[derbbus]

@timpovikings

There's a decent animation of the loading sequence on Wikipedia. (If you havent already seen it)?

Look for BL 15inch mark 1 gun.

[timpovikings]

@derbbus

If you go to: watch?v=dCHip9ZVUW0

...you'll see internal shots from 4.5 and VANGUARD's 15 inch, where the single stop cage is the size of a sideboard.

These turrets achieved a remarkably fast rate of fire with this loading system and quite why we didn't preserve one mounting I don't know. This aspect of engineering is now very difficult to research and maintains its air of mystery, all these years later.

Even the IWM has very little footage of the internal workings.

[tron2102]

Wow thanks for posting this!