Quote Originally Posted by vintage hunter View Post
With the breech it weighed about 268,000lbs.
So, for 3 of them per turret, that's over 3/4 million pounds, plus the mounting platforms and magazine feed system, plus heavily armoured turrets -- over 1 million pounds per 3-barreled turret. And she had three 3-barreled turrets. Plus twenty 5inch 38s, and multiple batteries of Anti-Aircraft guns. It's just hard to fathom the fire-power amassed in such a small space. Was there any weaponry as powerful in such a concentrated location? ( A nuclear submarine with nuclear warheads is the only thing that comes to mind.)