Regunning a battleship - photo

[Altair]

USS Kearsarge lowering one of USS Idaho's twelve 14-inch guns at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, c. late 1920s.

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Previously:

USS Pennsylvania drydocked - photo
WWI warship firing salvos - GIF
1942 construction of USS Alabama - photo
USS Iowa machine shop - photos
Battleship Tirpitz brick building camouflage - photos
1941 explosion of HMS Barham battleship - GIF and photo

[mbshop]

Not this one of course but in tech school we made a field trip to San Diego naval base to get a tour of the floating cranes still in use by the us navy that were taken from germany after wwll. Absolutely fascinating. All labels still in german. But the engines did have to be replaced.