Word: turrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name in the U. S. Navy, and the Houston, second of its name, are the sixth and seventh of eight light cruisers authorized in 1924, laid down in 1928. Six hundred feet long, 65 feet broad, displacing 10,000 tons, they carry nine 8-inch guns, three to a turret. Each ship will be manned by 597 officers...
...Eberle, 64, rear admiral, native of Texas, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet; in Washington, D. C.; of an old infection in his right ear. Rear Admiral Eberle was a lieutenant on the Oregon on its dash around the Horn (1898), had charge of its forward turret at the battle of Santiago...
...mournful morning. The chill air held a thin mist as the French cruiser Tourville, escorted by the U. S. cruisers Marblehead and Cincinnati, passed Ambrose Lightship, moved somberly through Quarantine and up New York Harbor. On her quarterdeck, under the after gun turret, rested a flag-draped coffin of rosewood. Within the coffin lay the body of Myron Timothy Herrick, late U. S. Ambassador to France, going home...
...thing to insure his immortality. Once, while visiting his brother the Pope, he donned a gold hair net, black biretta, grey-green and furry cloak, scarlet vest. In this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
...range of the Pennsylvania's 14-inch guns, remain in range for a time long enough (in the umpire's opinion) for the Pennsylvania to have sunk her in actual warfare. In the third place, the big guns are not actually fired. Every big turret gun has mounted upon it a small "subcalibre" gun. The gun crew goes through all the motions of loading, aiming, firing the big guns, but only the blank cartridges in the little gun actually go off. In the same way a submarine, popping up beside a battleship, need not actually discharge a torpedo...