Cuniberti's call for heavy artillery arranged to emphasize broadside fire led to the placement of four triple 12-inch gun turrets along the centerline . " Dante Alighieri " was the first battleship to mount her main battery in triple turrets, though the Austro-Hungarian was completed first.
12.
Unlike the battery of the earlier ship, that of " Sultan " was on two levels; the main deck guns provided broadside fire, with limited ahead fire from the foremost gun, while the upper deck guns provided additional broadside fire and also could fire astern, by traversing the after gun on a turntable.
13.
Unlike the battery of the earlier ship, that of " Sultan " was on two levels; the main deck guns provided broadside fire, with limited ahead fire from the foremost gun, while the upper deck guns provided additional broadside fire and also could fire astern, by traversing the after gun on a turntable.
14.
Around eleven, the five warships began a salvo of broadside fire that flattened the flimsy American breastworks and panicked the Connecticut militia . " So terrible and so incessant a roar of guns few even in the army and navy had ever heard before, " wrote Ambrose Serle, private secretary to Lord Howe.
15.
During the early part of her action against the German capital ship " Scharnhorst " at the Battle of the North Cape on 26 December 1943,, firing under radar control in poor weather, scored 31 straddles out of 52 broadsides fired and during the latter part she scored 21 straddles out of 25 broadsides, a very creditable gunnery performance.
