Courtesy of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
Built-Up and Wire-Wound Guns.
A built-up gun is made of several layers of forged steel. The parts of such a gun are known as the liner, the tube, the jacket and the hoops. The liner is a single piece which extends the length of the bore and is intended to contain the rifling and the powder chamber. This is inclosed by the tube, which is also in one piece, surrounding the liner throughout its length. Outside this is the jacket, made in two pieces and shrunk on the tube. Over the jacket lie the hoops, six or seven of these being used in a big gun. Like the jacket, these also are shrunk on. All these parts are made of the finest quality of open-hearth steel.
Five-Inch Naval Gun and Mount
The latest type of gun used in the U. S. Naval Service in the secondary batteries on a battleship.
Coast Defense Gun