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USS Wisconsin firing her 16 inch forward guns at an Iraqi artillery position near the Kuwait-Saudi border and would be some of the first shots of the ground war, Desert Storm, 24th February 1991
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USS New Jersey (BB-62) at anchor in the Delaware River, near the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, in May 1943. She was undergoing sea trials at the time
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October 1919, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. A number of obsolete pre-dreadnought battleships and cruisers lie mothballed after the Great War, waiting to be dismantled or converted into target ships
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28 March 2001, Panama Canal locks. USS Iowa (BB-61) squeezes through tight space while being towed from Newport to Suisun Bay where she will join the Reserve fleet.
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gun barrel being lowered into an electric furnace gun pit at the WNY Naval Gun Factory for liner insertion. The pit will heat the gun barrel, making it expand. In the background are other 16" (40.6 cm) guns under construction.
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Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Topeka undergoing inclining experiment at New York Naval Shipyard, 9 April 1960.
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HMS Boxer (F92) first of the Batch 2 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy after being hit with two Harpoon missiles during a SINKEX in August 2004
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All four Orion class battleships (Orion, Thunderer, Monarch and Conqueror), date and location unknown
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USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) and USS Charleston (C-22) are moored side by side at Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1911
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