Close-up of the rifling from the center gun in Turret II. There appears to
be something wedged inside the rifling. When the rifling split it caused the
breech of the barrel to break in half. The barrel slid about two or three
feet forward on the rifling. From the pier it looked like the barrel had
extruded out of the turret like toothpaste.
 

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