| Biggest Shells in Our Navy |
| Ammunition for the "Arizona" Piled on her deck |
| The biggest guns on United States battleships are the 14-inch rifles which form the primary batteries of the Pennsylvania and Arizona. Here we see shells for these guns on the deck of the latter ship. They are being taken on board and will soon be in the magazines. Behind them are metal cans containing smokeless powder, which is put up in silk bags. The shell is driven into the gun from the breech and the powder piled in behind it. Then the breech block is closed and the charge fired. The guns are arranged three to a turret. |
| Photo copyright E. Muller, Jr. and from Around the World With a Camera (the Leslie-Judge Co., New York), Copyright 1917. |
