The 5 inch 38 Gun Mounts were removed around 1963. The Ammo handling area below became a storage area. Take a view of larger 5in. handling details.

The 3 inch 50 Gun Mounts sat high above the 01 deck, on top of their Ammo Rooms. View a good photo of the Starboard Mount or Port Mount.

The main magazine for ammo was far below in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd levels and stored approx 7500 rounds. Passage to the magazines was via 32 ladders  under the Port #32 Ammo room. Bruce Wright, FTG2 (1970-75) of AO-145 can contest to that, he had to take this route to take temperature tests in the magazines. About (7) 3in rounds per step, of Ammo could be raised in "frame 24s" hoist  at one time. The projectiles were  carried to the Ammo Room where several hundred rounds could be stored, the route taken is unclear. Getting the rounds up to the Ammo lockers was a little tricky.

There were two holes where a single round was passed up to the gun mount, this hole was in two parts, that is, the gun mount had to be turned in the one position the holes were lined up. The projectiles were then stored in the local ammo lockers. View 3 in. system  team details .

Richard Inman, FT2 (1956-59) of AO-146 remembers that the chain hoist from magazines broke one time during a surface shoot and dropped (12) 5" projectiles right back into the magazine!