| The Biggest Guns in Uncle Sam's Navy |
| Fourteen-inch guns that stand ready to enforce American rights |
| The United States has in commission two battleships armed with 14-inch rifles. This photograph shows a gun turret on one of them, the Arizona, when in the Brooklyn Navy Yard having her engines repaired. The heavy guns of this splendid fighting ship are arranged three to a turret, there being four turrets. The secondary battery consists of 22 five-inch guns and 10 of smaller size. The Arizona has a displacement of 31,400 tons and a speed of 21 knots. The Pennsylvania is a sister ship, having similar equipment and carrying the same complement, 1,002 officers and men. These two ships, the newest in our navy, are the only vessels we have that mount anti-aircraft guns. These are on deck and are of the latest and most approved pattern. Three new battleships, the California, Mississippi and Idaho now under construction, will mount 16-inch guns and will have displacements of 39,220 tons each. The Mississippi was launched in 1916. |
| Photo copyright American Press Association and from Around the World With a Camera (the Leslie-Judge Co., New York), Copyright 1917. |
