An item referred that the American armoured cruiser USS Michigan during worse weather and sea conditions during gun exercises with the gun turrets scored around 40% hits over a distance of 9 kilometres.(1)
Note
1. Not an armoured cruiser but a dreadnought battleship (BB27), laid down at the shipyard of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation on 17 December 1906, launched on 26 May 1908, commissioned on 4 January 1910, decommissioned on 11 February 1922, stricken on 10 November 1923 and sold to be broken up in 1924. .Armament consisted of 4x2-30,5cm12” Mark 5 /45 guns, 22-7,6cm/3” /50 anti torpedo boat guns and 2-21” submerged torpedo tubes. Of the South Carolina-class.
