Gun deck of HMS VictoryThe lower gun deck of the Swedish 17th century warship Vasa looking toward the bow
The term gun deck used to refer to a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannon to be fired in broadsides. The term is generally applied to decks enclosed under a roof; smaller and unrated vessels carried their guns on the upper deck, forecastle and quarterdeck, and these were not described as gun decks.[1][2]
The term gundeck used to refer to a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannon to be fired in broadsides. The term is generally...
A deckgun is a type of naval artillery mounted on the deck of a submarine. Most submarine deckguns were open, with or without a shield; however, a few...
the structure was the "gun wale" on a sailing warship, a horizontal reinforcing band added at and above the level of a gundeck to offset the stresses...
the gundeck to go up through the gratings to the main deck, which they could reach only by climbing a wooden or rope ladder. Below the gundeck was the...
powerful ironclad warships, the term frigate was used because of their single gundeck. Later developments in ironclad ships rendered the frigate designation...
guns, in order to keep the gangways and crew decks clear. Admiral William Henry Smyth wrote in his 1867 book, The Sailor's Word-Book: "Son of a gun,...
its gundeck was covered. If a ship had only a single open gundeck it was considered to be 'corvette build'. If a ship had a single covered gundeck, it...
waterline, which allows the muzzle of artillery pieces mounted on the gundeck to fire outside. The origin of this technology is not precisely known,...
becoming the main deck (the former main deck now being the gundeck), leaving the quarterdeck as the only significant deck above the main deck.[citation needed]...
Sovereign of the Seas had 118 gun ports and only 102 guns. The shape of the bow meant that the foremost gun ports on the lower gundeck were blocked by the anchor...
The Suite Life on Deck is a Disney Channel original series, which aired for three seasons on Disney Channel from September 26, 2008, to May 6, 2011. Part...
scuttling command ensured that down-flooding would start to descend below the gundeck, as the crew made their way up through watertight hatches that would thereafter...
stern, this short deck takes its name from the Latin word puppis – which means after deck or rear. Guns were rarely carried on this deck. It was mainly used...
Constitution's battery of guns typically consisted of 30 long 24-pounder (11 kg) cannons, with 15 on each side of the gundeck. Twenty-two more guns were deployed...
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