What is the biggest gun on a battleship?

The largest calibre guns ever mounted on a ship were the nine 45.7 cm (18 inch) guns installed on the Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi. The shells weighed 1,452 kg (3,200 lb) and could be fired 43.5 km (27 miles). Yamato and Musashi were the largest battleships ever to sail.

How accurate were WWII battleships?

Even with a talented gunner the accuracy of the ship’s main guns was only about 32 percent at nine miles against a battleship-size target, according to a Naval War College study during World War II.

How do you name a turret on a battleship?

When talking about battleships, it’s often necessary to somehow name turrets. In the pre-dreadnought days it usually wasn’t too hard, as there were only two main turrets, and you could call them “fore” and “aft”. But dreadnoughts generally had between three and seven turrets, and different nations used different techniques to designate them.

Why didn’t the US Navy use wing turrets in WW1?

The turrets were simply numbered fore to aft. While this system is simple and effective, it had one major drawback. It didn’t deal with wing turrets well. This wasn’t a problem for the USN, which never used wing turrets, but most dreadnought-owning navies did, and needed a different system.

What side of the ship does the F turret go on?

The first German dreadnoughts, which used a hexagonal arrangement, had B and C turrets to starboard, D turret aft, and E and F turrets on the port side, with F the forward one of the two. Later on, they switched to staggered wing turrets that allowed cross-deck firing.

How did the British and German turrets work?

Britain and Germany both used letters, but they used them in rather different ways. The British system was reasonably straightforward. Each position had a specific letter. A was the foremost turret, while any superfiring turret was designated as B. Wing turrets were designated P and Q, usually with P being to port and Q to starboard.