The York's lighter eight-inch turret became the heavier one

Did the County and York classes use the same eight-inch guns and turrets?

They used the same gun barrels but different mountings; the York's intended lighter turret became heavier after reinforcement and lost the older turret's high elevation.

A viewer asks whether the County and York classes used the same eight-inch weapon. They shared a common gun barrel but used different turret mountings around it. The York mounting was intended to be lighter, but removing features created structural or operating problems that demanded added reinforcement. It ultimately became heavier and could not reproduce the earlier mounting's 70-degree elevation. The example shows why a nominally simplified turret can lose both weight and capability once practical corrections accumulate.