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2. Dee Wright Observatory - Wikipedia

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   There is also a 36 inch (90 cm) diameter, bronze azimuth-like "peak finder" on the observatory’s roof to help visitors locate nearby geologic features as well as the surrounding mountain peaks. From the top of the observatory, visitors have a panoramic view of the Cascade Mountain Range including Mount Hood in the far north. [1] [2]

3. HMS Hood - Wikipedia

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   Live-firing trials with the new 15-inch APC (armour-piercing, capped) shell against a mock-up of Hood showed that this shell could penetrate the ship's vitals via the 7-inch middle belt and the 2-inch slope of the main deck as a result 3-inch plating on the main deck over the slopes was added alongside the magazine spaces at a very late stage ...

4. Admiral-class battlecruiser - Wikipedia

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   By early 1940 Hood ' s machinery was in dire shape and limited her best speed to 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h; 30.5 mph); she was refitted between 4 April and 12 June. [36] Hood and the aircraft carrier Ark Royal were ordered to Gibraltar to join Force H on 18 June where Hood would become the flagship.

5. Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I (1916) - Wikipedia

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   They had a maximum range of about 15,364 meters (16,802 yd) with a 36.86-kilogram (81.3 lb) shell at a muzzle velocity of 823 m/s (2,700 ft/s). [ 8 ] The original anti-aircraft armament was going to be four 38-caliber 2.5-inch (64 mm) AA guns mounted on the roofs of the fore and aft turrets, but this was changed during construction to four 37 ...

6. J-, K- and N-class destroyer - Wikipedia

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   The relatively ineffective multiple 0.5-inch machine guns were replaced with a single 20 mm Oerlikon, with a further pair added abreast the searchlight platform amidships. The high-speed destroyer mine sweeps were replaced with a rack and two throwers for 45 depth charges and a Type 286 Radar air warning was added at the masthead alongside Type ...

7. Tribal-class destroyer (1936) - Wikipedia

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   The first two Canadian built Tribals, Micmac and Nootka, were armed with the then standard armament of three 4.7-inch twin mountings and a single twin 4-inch mount, with the 4.7-inch mounts being given improved A.A. fuze setters, [12] while the last two Canadian-built Tribals were equipped with eight Mark XVI guns with R.P.C. and four to six ...