HMS Lord Clive triple 15in

[World B4]

After WW1, her 18in gun was replaced by an experimental open triple mounting. I'd love to see any photographs or diagrams, surely there was an effort to document the modification as the whole point was to learn from it.

 

[Dilandu]

Apparently the only photo available in such configuration.

 

[Dilandu]

P.S. Not sure about "open mount" - the one on photo seems to be at least partially roofed.

 

[Jemiba]

It's the same photo. I found in Ian Buxton "Big Gun Monitors", though in much worse quality there. It's said there:
"Clive's 18in and secondary armament were therefore removed, and additional strengthening fitted. The
three guns were then installed on a fixed mounting by COW, covered by a canvas screen, pointing out to
starboard as illustrated below. The mounting was converted from a twin 15in turntable under construction
for one of the cancelled Hood-class battlecruisers. The new mounting weighed 520 tons complete with guns,
rather heavier than the 18in. Clive recommissioned on 15 December 1920, but she was not ready to leave
Portsmouth until 1 February. She was towed round to the Nore, for the next month firing off her test
rounds up the Shoeburyness range. The trials showed that there were no serious problems with a triple mounting, ..."

There's another photo in that (e)book partially showing this gun mount, but not really helpful neither


"During trial firings of Clive's three 15in guns at the Nore in March 1921, a faulty
fuze in an APC projectile (one of those condemned after Jutland) detonated it
prematurely in the bore, bursting the jacket and wrecking the left gun. The gun
cradle is seen on the right, together with some of the fractured wire winding."

 

[World B4]

P.S. Not sure about "open mount" - the one on photo seems to be at least partially roofed.

looks that way. I thought I read it was a fixed open mount but it might've just said fixed, or been wrong