The 3-inch/23-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" × 23 = 69" or 1. ...

The Mark 14 was a boat gun adapted by the Poole Engineering and Machine Company during World War I as an AA gun for destroyers. Mark 14 Mod 1 was used aboard patrol craft and had a muzzle blast reducer and a breech counterweight.

Mike Dobrzelecki submitted this excellent set of close-up images of the 3"/23 caliber Poole deck gun on display at the National Museum of the US Navy at the Washington Navy Yard. The Poole gun was the standard deck gun used on submarine chasers in WWI.

Close-up photos of the Poole 3"/23 caliber deck gun on display in the Washington Navy Yard, and Poole 3"/23 caliber deck gun schematic drawing (NHC collection), submitted by Jack Hudock.

The McClean Mk. III was intended as an infantry support gun or as a landing gun for amphibious operations. In the infantry support role, it would have been used in loopholing operations to neutralize enemy machine guns in pillboxes.

2015年9月13日 · The Poole Gun described in MoneyToes linked pamphlet was a 3" gun, so that is clearly not it, although a similar design may have been built in a small caliber. But I do think it is correct to call what you have a "shell", though, because it has threading on the bottom where a burst fuse (specifically, a base fuse ) would presumably be installed.

In June 1918, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations recommended that Poole 3-inch, 23-caliber guns replace Davis Guns on smaller craft, and it added the Poole gun to troop transports and freighters as well.

Gunner on deck, with 3"/23 caliber Poole deck gun, the standard issue for the chasers. Photo of Poole deck gun on SC 297, courtesy of Thomas Parks, son of SC 297 crewman James Everett Parks. Book traversal links for Parks Collection - 09 - Poole Gun

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The 3"/23 caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" x 23 = 69" or 1.75 ...