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Originally Posted by Dee8go
I have heard people say that before they fired those 16" guns, they'd say, "Clear the decks" because they created such a vacuum that it would suck you right over the side of the ship. Don't know if this was true or not. Does anybody else know?
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Yep thats true, you have to get back a ways. Those guys filiming it where about as close as you'd want to get.
Those shells weighed over 2,000 pounds and I think they have 600 pounds of powder behind them. Affective range is probably about 18-20 miles. On the receving end they sounded like freight trains coming overhead.