Note also that firing at a land installation is as close to "fire for effect" as you'll ever get on a sub. The exact aim doesn't matter, it's a bombardment, you go for beaten zone. So that is the rate that they can shovel rounds in without paying the least attention unless they were watching the shots fall (which they would by definition be doing vs ANY ship target).
BTW, I asked a guy (who currently works on simulating artillery for the US Army) about spec ROF vs combat ROF. Before he simulated such things for the military, he was an Army officer as well. He knows his stuff.
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For your specific question on a sub deck gun...you also have environmental issues...the sub might be rolling in the sea state or the weather might be bad (never mind the effects of any return fire) and all this acts to slow down the ROF. In a higher sea state the ammo was usually not brought up from below until the last minute as extensive water exposure could and did result in duds on occasion...so you have the delay associated with passing the ammo to the deck crew in a manner thats less than optimal for ROF.
Take the logs as ground truth...thats the reality of using the weapon in combat...
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