# Talk:Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship

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The text mentions that turrets of the Imperatritsa Mariya were salvaged and two of the guns were used in Battery 30 (fort Maxim Gorky 1) in Sevastopol. I don't know about the guns themselves -- and why the original guns of the fort should have been replaced -- but what is captioned as a photo of the said guns here and in the article on the fort itself clearly shows that the turret was not the Imperatritsa Mariya's angular 3-barrel turret but the standard round 2-barrel turret used in fortress emplacements. Though the turret is badly destroyed, the cutouts for high-angle fire are clearly visible in the sloped roof. Naval turrets did not have such cutouts and the roof was straight.--Death Bredon (talk) 21:16, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

I didn't say that the turrets were used in Battery 30; the guns were removed from the ship's turrets after they were salvaged and used in the Battery while I presume that the turrets were ultimately scrapped.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:22, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
I did not say you did, I just noted that the turret is not the same. But the question remains, why would the Russians have replaced the guns of one fortress turret (out of two) with the Impreratritsa Maria's guns? The original fortress turret guns had not seen any actual battle use during WW1 and would not have been worn out at that stage. One might also note that while the original two-gun turrets of Maxim Gorky were destroyed during the German siege in WW2, the fortress has since been reconstructed with three-gun naval turrets.--Death Bredon (talk) 20:27, 21 April 2021 (UTC)