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Baty 1919 THE MARINE REVIEW 99 Unloading a 14-inch gun ee g : : from a transport at St. Na- zaire. This gun weighs 96 tons, has a muzzle velocity of 2800 feet per second and a maximum range of 52,000 yards. At angles of eleva- tion ranging from zero to 15 degrees the gun may be fired with no other support than the trucks on the rails. When mounted on its special foun- dation it may be fired at any angle within a range of from 10 to 45 degrees Having no flat cars of suf- ficient capacity to carry the 14-inch guns the erecting crew at St. Nazaire used the gun cars to carry the guns from the dock to the assem-~ bly shop e Assembled trucks ready to receive the main girders. The assembled girders are . approximately 85 feet long, 13 feet high and 9 feet wide. Each 12-wheel truck weighs over 20 tons Gun car on temporary trestle at St. Nazaire. A special 12-wheel truck was necessary to carry the 535,000-pound car so that it could pass safely over any railroad in France