Talk:8inch Triple Gun Mount Mk.9/@comment-24.68.9.74-20190929155856/@comment-2605:6000:1715:4096:943E:EBED:DE22:402C-20190930170546

Solutions to the problems found in the Pensacola mount(not gun) were found and corrected as early as 1933, only 4 years after Pensacola had been launched and commissioned(though she started building in 1926). This included Relining of the barrels and the use of delay coils. It helps that the solutions were similar to solutions to the problems plaguing the USN super dreadnought battleships with triple barrels during the 1910s and 1920s which had been identified (and solved) slightly earlier or at the same time (even before the guns were replaced from the marks (1-5) 14 inch guns to the marks (8-12) 14 inch gun). In other words the next classes of 8 inch Cruisers after Portland(the new orleans) never had the problem of older USN cruisers. In Comparison to the torpedo problem and the 14 inch guns that were on a triple mount taking a decade and a halt to fix, it's a rather successful example of Buord actually fixing a problem during the limited constraints of Peace time. Whether by coincidence or perhaps it was planned the introduction of delay coils had the USN remove the torpedo tubes on the Pensacola and Northampton classes in 1935.