This is one instense where it is always unsafe to be on deck while the main guns are in action!



This is the battleship Missouri Firing a salvo during the Korian war. Notice that one of the shells has detinated right at the end of the barrel! The other shells are visable in the upper right hand corner of the photo. Also notice the shell debree hitting the water.
A premature exsplosion is always a possibility, so with that thought in mind, I would not think people on deck durring firing should be permitted. This kind of thing rarely happens, but I sure would not want to be above deck at that time!

Cheers,

Garry

Yes Garry!

Live ammunition can do those kind of "surprises"!
Even with the "environmental temperature control storage" aboard ships this things happen!

That was a WWII ammo for sure!

and your Lionfish?

Just teasing you!

Skipper

I imagine that when last deployed....1991 Desert Storm that the ammo was the same WW2 16 inchers

Yep Steve, I beleave that all 16" munitions were left over WW-2 stock piles. And I guess it was a huge amount!

Garry

I forget what movie it was, but one WWII Navy show with John Boy, from the Waltons, acting in it, but when the big guns were about to go off, all the sirens would sound to clear the decks so everybody could get inside.

Well I guess John boy didn't make it, and when the big guns went off, the concussion from the guns almost wiped him off the deck, it was supposed to show him being drug clear across the deck from the concussion from the guns going off.

That was the main reason they said nobody was supposed to be up there to, that the concussion, would blow you right off the ship, not to mention an exploding shell.
Kerry