-
caravel pierced with
gunports; a
relation of the
Siege of Rhodes,
printed in Ulm in 1496, that
mentions a ship with 10
gunports; and a text that mentions...
-
there is an
intact example at
Castle Doornenburg in the Netherlands.
Gunports were
keyhole shaped, with a
circular hole at the
bottom for the weapon...
- the
heaviest guns. The side of the hull on the main deck
level had
seven gunports on each side ****ed with
heavy lids that
would have been
watertight when...
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Gunports high on
either side of the
forecastle in this
contemporary small-scale
model of the bow of the
Soleil Royal show that
chase guns
could be fired...
- anti-personnel weapons, they had to be
placed lower in the ships, and fire from
gunports, to
avoid ships becoming unstable. In
Northern Europe the
technique of...
-
siting of the
lower gunports,
could not be rectified.
Instead it was
noted in Victory's
sailing instructions that
these gunports would have to remain...
-
black and
yellow paint along the
sides of the hull,
broken up by
black gunports. In the 18th and 19th centuries,
vessels of all
nations were
painted in...
-
Dockyard from 1512 to 1514 and was one of the
first vessels to
feature gunports and had
twenty of the new
heavy bronze cannon,
allowing for a broadside...
-
stability their lowest gundeck had to be very
close to the
waterline and its
gunports could not be
opened in
anything but the
calmest of seas. To do otherwise...
- MiG-29UB on display,
showing gunport...
