User blog:I am that guy/Fun Fact: the British 18' gun



Time for a fun fact, did you guys know that Yamato wasn't the first warship armed with 18' guns? In WWI, the British Battlecruiser HMS Furious carried two in two single mounts, one forward and one aft. When Furious was converted to a carrier, the turrets were mounted on a pair of monitors. Only eighty-five rounds of British 18' shells were fired in anger.