That means it lobbed 5,866 sixteen-inch shells and 14,891 five-inch shells ... When in service, it had a top speed of 33 knots. It has nine 16-inch guns. The Big J was upgraded with missile ...

Eventually, the General Board settled on the 16-inch Mark 7. The gun was originally designed to fire a lighter, 2,240-pound Armor Piercing (AP) Mark 5 projectile. But the Mark 7’s shell handling ...