From the December 2022 U.S. Naval Institute "Homes for the big guns: Preserving U.S. Navy Heritage" by Terrance McGovern.
In June 2011, the Coast Defense Study group (CDSG) was asked to find homes for eight historic 16-inch Mark 7 barrels located at St. Julien's Creek Naval Annex in Chesapeake, Virginia, or the barrels would be auctioned off through the internet with the requirement that they be cut into six-foot sections.
At the time, the Navy was purging all the Iowa-class materials in its inventories. They had already liquidated another 14 similar 16-inch barrels in storage at Hawthorne, Nevada.
The CDSG was able to convince the Navy to allow more time to find homes for the barrels who would pay for the cost of relocating each of the 68-foot long objects weighing in at about 119 tons.
As these barrels were similar to the ones that were once located in World War II coast defense sites, the owners of those sites were first approached.
--GreGen
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