Regunning a battleship - photo

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:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...604#post170430
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...161#post176537
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...591#post174237
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...800#post163735
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...050#post176176
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...392#post116759

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.