So they fires with a 6 inch deck gun for an hour and 9 minutes to no effect?
Actually, that is a useful lesson in reality. The gun was capable for some rate of "rapid fire" in theory. In practice, the hoist breaks, and they have to bucket brigade the ammo up (and the 2d gun didn't even try to fire because of a broken hoist), dropping the ROF such that they fire for over an hour to get the target burning (1 hour, 18 minutes after they started according to the log).
As for the DP role of the gun, that's on a surface combatant. A single 5" gun, even with the very good VT fused shells would be utterly ineffective as an AA weapon.
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