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Extra guns on ships and unbuilt designs

USS Texas and proposals associated with Goodall and Henderson illustrate the urge to use available space for more guns.

Question

Which ships and designers illustrate the practice of adding as many extra guns as possible?

Short answer

USS Texas is one example, while Goodall and Henderson also proposed ships with extensive gun armament.

Notes

Many ships acquired extra guns wherever space could be found. USS Texas is one example of a ship that accumulated a considerable amount of additional equipment. Stanley Goodall and Henderson also had ideas for heavily armed designs. Some of those proposals were never built, and their intended armament remained a design ambition.