UPPER SHELL DECK

Replica powder bags in Turret 1, starboard loading tray made in 2000, by volunteers Ed and Alita Morrsion.

COMPOSITION

"Bluejackets Manual", 1917, 4th edition: "ordinary guncotton soluble in a mixture of ether and alcohol, a pulp is thus formed which is pressed out into grains. Navy smokeless powder varies in color from light lemon to a deep brown, almost black. It is very tough and burns regularly and progressively." (Do not know if the composition varied from 1917 - 1945).

COST

In 1914, about $40 - $45 a bag extrapolated from One shell cost $600, "Navy Yearbook - 1910" Cost to fire one gun - $777, 27 March 1914 New York Times (four bags per firing)

WEIGHT

Year	lbs	.
1927	90	68 pounds for gunnery drill, 9 Sep 1927 "The TEXAS TOREADOR"
1945	105	.