BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Southeast -- Washington Navy Yard -- Willard and Dahlgren (?) Parks

DC -- Southeast -- Washington Navy Yard -- Willard and Dahlgren (?) Parks:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WNYYD_061218_010.JPG: Navy Gun Car. Mounting 14"-50 caliber naval gun. One of the United States Naval Railway Batteries designed, constructed ,and shipped abroad by the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department. Placed in Operation in France and manned by Naval personnel under the command of Rear Admiral C.P. Plunkett, USN. Designs were started December 26, 1917. Finished January 25, 1918. Construction commenced February 13, 1918. Completed April 26, 1918. Tested April 30, 1918. Shipped abroad June 1918. Re-erected in France July-August 1918. Started for the battle front from St. Nazaire, France, on August 17, 1918. 234 days from the date of first designs, this gun fired 236-1400 pound Navy shells against the Germans. The U.S. Naval Railway Batteries travelled the length of France, firing -- From ... Upon Soissons ... Laon Rethondes ... Tergnier Fontenoy-Ambleny ... Besny-Loisy Flavy-le-Martel .. Mortiers Charney ...Remoiville, Montmedy, and Louppy Thierville ... Longuyon, and Mangiennes Maximum range used: 42,500 yards (24.2 miles)
2. WNYYD_061218_034.JPG: Armor Plate. This 26-inch armor plate was intended for use in Japanese Yamato class battleships. Found in the Kure Naval Base shortly after the end of World War II, it was shipped to the Naval Proving Grounds at Dahlgren, Virginia, for ballistics tests. The damage to this particular section was inflicted by the impact of a standard U.S. Navy 16-inch armor piercing projectile.
3. WNYYD_061218_070.JPG: Deck gun from the USS Maine
4. WNYYD_061218_074.JPG: Spare propeller blade from USS Maine
5. WNYYD_061218_125.JPG: 4-inch 40 caliber rifles. These two guns, originally known as breech-loading rifles, are trained in a southerly direction, to either side of the flagship. Gun on East side, registry no. 21, manufactured in 1896 here at the Navy Yard, mounted on USS Puritan (1896-1922), one of the last of the USN monitors. She participated in the attack on the Spanish fleet at Santiago Cuba in July 1898. Gun on West side, registry no. 152, manufactured in 1898 by American Ordnance Co., mounted on USS Topeka (1898-1930). She operated off Cuba in the Spanish-American War, also saw Mediterranean and Caribbean service.
Description of Subject Matter: According to a somewhat out-of-date plaque in the Dahlgren Park:

On display in Willard Park, named for the 20th century commandant of the Yard, are over 60 naval artifacts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Items include:
Several large artifacts salvaged from the battleship Maine sunk on the eve of the Spanish-American War,
Naval landing force guns surrounding German and American deck guns, one of which fired the first American shot of World War I,
From World War I, the last of eight 14-inch naval railway batteries,
From World War II, the propeller from the battleship South Dakota,
The Navy's first radar antenna,
Armor plate from Japanese and American warships,
A 16-inch gun barrel rests on specially designed trucks which one moved these huge guns through the Yard,
A Regulus missile,
A Terrier battery,
A Sparrowhawk launcher,
A five-inch gun barrel that saw service in Vietnam,
The NOMAD remote sensor platform, and
The titanium pressure sphere from the bathyscaphe, Alvin.
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