| Sixteen-inch, 50 Caliber, Mark 2, Mod. 1 Gun Barrel |
| NH 81482 -- On display in East Willard Park, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., in October 1972. This gun in Number 111, built at the Washington Navy Yard in 1922 for planned installation on one of the abortive South Dakota (BB 49-54) class battleships or the similarly aborted Lexington (CC 1-6 )class battle cruisers. |
| Note railway trucks supporting the gun barrel . The two sixteen-inch projectiles displayed alongside the gun are inert shells fired by the USS New Jersey into San Clemente Island, California, during shore bombardment practice in 1968. |
| U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. |
| Naval Historical Center -- Online Library of Selected Images of the South Dakota Class Battleships |
