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gun deck::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | deck |
Examples of gun deck
gun deck
In old navalparlance, the prow applied to the battery of guns placed in the fore gun-deck.
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The fireship jammed under Scipion's bowsprit, the fore sails caught fire and the fire spread onto the upper gun-deck.
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Claims about the addition of a second gun deck are harder to refute, but significant evidence exists against it.
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The king ordered 72 24-pound cannons for the ship on 5 August 1626, and this was too many to fit on a single gun deck.
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Mines cut free are recorded and collected for research or shot with a deck gun.
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That left me to plop on a bench and have Edel to myself until Greg finally abandoned the cannons displayed up on the gun deck.
From the washingtonpost.com
He and his staff occupied the conning tower during the engagement, which forced the ship's captain to command the ship from the gun deck.
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There has been much speculation that Vasa was lengthened during construction and whether an additional gun deck was added late during the build or not.
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On a bright fall morning a few days before the movie's premiere, Robertson is standing on the Constitution's gloomy gun deck in a trapezoid of sunlight beaming through the hatch above.
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