On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:59:25 -0700, coastwatch wrote:

> What do you do if you inherit a couple of turrets-worth of secondary
> armament from a Nazi Battle-Cruiser?

That place looks awesome. Shame the links to the large images on the site
seem to be broken (at least all the ones I tried)...

Wonder if those guns are really 15cm, or 6"? Not sure if they would have
made their own guns or just bought some in from overseas.

I read 40mm as 40cm at first... that would have been one heck of a barrel :)

cheers

Jules

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> On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:59:25 -0700, coastwatch wrote:
> Wonder if those guns are really 15cm, or 6"? Not sure if they would have
> made their own guns or just bought some in from overseas.

If they're German they would've been 150mm, like these ones: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell_w_b/318483888/in/set-72157603795684131/

The Whitehaven coast-artillery battery used captured French 138mm guns 
during WWII (having sent their four-inchers to the Mumbles), and couldn't 
practice, as ammunition was scarce!  I don't really see the Germans using 
imperial measurements for their weaponry calibres.

-- 
Regds,

Russell W. B.
http://www.huttonrow.co.uk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell_w_b

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