Here's another angle you don't see the twin 5in/38 Mk.12 turret from very often.

If I smuggled some live ordnance into that turret, I could raise hell in that parking lot down there, and shell the the expensive villas in the hills overlooking San Pedro!


Also, here's an interesting tale I learned from my dad. He was a bridge officer in a US Navy Destroyer back in the early 1950s, and most of the Destroyers in his Squadron had turrets just like this one. The morning after they went through a particularly nasty storm, it was found that one of the waves that swept over one of the destroyers had squashed a Mk.12 turret like a paper hat! Such is the power of the sea.