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English: NH 81481 Sixteen-inch, 50 Caliber, Mark 2, Mod. 1 Gun Barrel. On display in East Willard Park, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., in October 1974. This gun is Number 111, built at the Washington Navy Yard in 1922 for planned installation on the abortive South Dakota (BB 49-54) class battleships and Lexington (CC 1-6) class battle cruisers. Note railway trucks supporting the gun barrel. The two sixteen-inch projectiles displayed alongside the gun are inert shells fired by USS New Jersey into San Clemente Island, California, during shore bombardment practice in 1968.
Date may be 1919
Source https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/indiana-bb-50/NH-81481.html
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Francis Christian Muller  (1860–1938)  wikidata:Q26197061
 
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Frank Christian Muller, Frank Muller, F Muller
Description Danish-American painter
Date of birth/death 1860 Edit this at Wikidata 1938 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Denmark Washington D.C.
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