Behemoth
In a caption for a previous image of the USS Wisconsin (BB-64), I described her as big in the beam. This image gives a better perspective of that. It was taken from as far astern as I could get.
Just visible on the lower corners of the image are the sponsons for what were originally quadruple 40mm anti-aircraft gun mounts which were removed when the ship was modernised in the 1980s. The flight-deck, used in the Vietnam era for helicopters, and in the 1990s for remotely-piloted vehicles, was a replacement for two WWII catapults used to launch reconnaissance floatplanes.
Forward of that, you can see a marquee and people gathering for a US Navy retirement ceremony. The after main battery, the three-gun 16-inch turret, appears quite some distance away and yet most of the 58,000-ton ship is forward of them.
Two of the six remaining twin 5-inch turrets can be seen outboard on the 01 deck level, and two of the eight quadruple armoured box launchers for nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles (installed as part of the Cold War rebuild in the 1980s) at the 02 deck level behind the 16-inch gun barrels.
Truly massive.
Seen alongside at Nauticus, the National Maritime Center, in Norfolk, VA.
Behemoth
In a caption for a previous image of the USS Wisconsin (BB-64), I described her as big in the beam. This image gives a better perspective of that. It was taken from as far astern as I could get.
Just visible on the lower corners of the image are the sponsons for what were originally quadruple 40mm anti-aircraft gun mounts which were removed when the ship was modernised in the 1980s. The flight-deck, used in the Vietnam era for helicopters, and in the 1990s for remotely-piloted vehicles, was a replacement for two WWII catapults used to launch reconnaissance floatplanes.
Forward of that, you can see a marquee and people gathering for a US Navy retirement ceremony. The after main battery, the three-gun 16-inch turret, appears quite some distance away and yet most of the 58,000-ton ship is forward of them.
Two of the six remaining twin 5-inch turrets can be seen outboard on the 01 deck level, and two of the eight quadruple armoured box launchers for nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles (installed as part of the Cold War rebuild in the 1980s) at the 02 deck level behind the 16-inch gun barrels.
Truly massive.
Seen alongside at Nauticus, the National Maritime Center, in Norfolk, VA.