turret farm

English

Noun

A diagram of HMS Agincourt, a turret farm (ship), showing the seven turrets of her turret farm (main battery).

turret farm (plural turret farms)

1. (military, nautical, informal) A battleship with an unusually-large number of main-battery turrets (generally five or more).
   1. The main battery carried by such a battleship, or the major portion thereof.
      • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:07 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 August 2022:

        Turning to get a better bead on Princess Royal, the Prinzregent Luitpold catches a full salvo from HMS Agincourt's massive turret farm and vanishes in a roar of water and flame. Nothing is left once the smoke has cleared.

      • 2020 October 18, Drachinifel, 1:04:14 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 116‎^[2], archived from the original on 29 September 2022:

        […] and back in World War I, obviously, you had a lot of ships that either had amidships turrets, like the Iron Dukes, or ships that had big turret farms on the back, like Agincourt or the Wyomings, and, at that point, getting those aft guns around is obviously significantly more important than a single triple or something like that is in World War II […]