I have been in the nc when I lived in charlotte. this is funny, you would think it was a huge ship but it was actually pretty small (ok not a vw size). hard to imagine how 2000 men lived and worked on it. it sure had lots of guns on board.
it had Nine 16-inch/45 caliber guns; twenty 5-inch/38 caliber guns; sixty 40mm Bofors guns; forty-eight 20mm guns
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