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Ammunition Capacity |
1910: Contract Plan", 30 Sept 1910, Drawing # 9351, on microfilm reel 32120-01 aboard BB35 |
1944: letter "Ammunition Storage-Capacities aboard U.S.S. TEXAS" BB35/S78-3, Serial 091, 13 July 1944.
Provided by Ed Morrison and obtained from the National Archives. |
1910 | 1944 | 14" and 5" Shells | 1910 | 1944 | ||
1,000 a b | 1,200 c | 14" Projectiles | 1 box | Cartridges dummy, Model 1906 | 5,000 | 3" 50 Cartridges |
20 | , | 14" drill Practice | 10 box | Cartridges for 30 cal Model 1898 for Sub-Caliber | 29,000 | 40mm |
2,000 | 2,000 | 14" Powder (tanks) | 16 box | War Heads (torpedo) | 225,000 | 20mm |
4,840 | 2,500 | 5" Projectiles | 160 | Cartridges for 30 cal Model 1906 for rifles & magazine guns | 175 | Catapult |
4,840 | 2,500 | Powder Charges | 17 tanks | Saluting Powder (lbs) | 23 | 325lbs Depth Bombs |
19 box | 3lb saluting charges | 30 | 100lbs bombs | |||
a - all 1,400 Armor Piercing (AP) | 19 box | 3lb saluting charges | ||||
b - 40 shells in each turret | 20 box | 1lb RF for boat guns | ||||
c - Mark 19(AP) Mark 20 High Capacity(HC) | 20 box | Cartridges ball cal 38 revolver | ||||
3 box | Cartridges blank Model 1909 for rifle model 1903 | |||||
Turret shells I do question. Storage set up is | 30 box | Primers BLR combination | ||||
there but lifting a tapered cylinder is not | 32 box | Naval defense mine charges (4 boxes per charge) - a | ||||
possible. | 50 box | 1lb blind sub cal | ||||
50 box | 3" Field Gun | |||||
a - Naval Defense Mines: Doubtful mines were aboard | ||||||
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Started 11 May 1999 Chuck Moore, FTV (1st Texas Volunteers) BB35 volunteer group