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Country of Origin	United States
Type	Coastal Defense Gun
Caliber	360.000 mm
Length	16.320 m
Barrel Length	16.000 m
Weight	309355.000 kg
Ammunition Weight	753.00 kg
Rate of Fire	2 rounds/min
Range	20.850 km
Muzzle Velocity	716 m/s

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseIn 1910, a new 14-inch/45 caliber gun design was completed for the United States Navy to equip on New York-, Nevada-, and Pennsylvania-class battleships. Guns of this design also equipped British warships as the BL 14 inch gun Mk II; they were installed on Abercrombie-class monitors. In fall 1944, the 14-inch guns from turrets number 3 and 4 of the sunken USS Arizona were removed and given to the United States Army to be used as coastal defense guns. The US Army planned to install them in two locations in Hawaii, United States and planned to call them Battery Arizona and Battery Pennsylvania. Ultimately, only Battery Pennsylvania was completed. The 14-inch guns of Battery Pennsylvania went through a test firing exercise in late Aug 1945, and it was never used again. The battery was cut up for scrap after the war.

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Last Major Revision: Nov 2010

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