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Chapter IV of Naval Ordnance, 1937 covers the classification and design of naval guns. Topics include types of guns, classification aboard ship and by battery, designation systems, component parts (exterior and interior), principles underlying gun design, the built-up gun, wire-wound gun, radial-expansion gun, practical gun design, gun projects, and rifling. Twenty-six scanned text pages and two technical plates (document pp. 91–116).