-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
- MiG-29UB on display,
showing gunport...
-
partial battery on this deck of her
intended sisters, on
which there were no
gunports in the
waist along this deck), and so was
reclassed as a
First rate of...
- One of Äpplet's
upper gundeck gunports History Sweden Launched 1629 Fate Sunk as part of
defenses near Vaxholm...
- the
gunports having to be cut
through the
structural wales,
which also
follow this curve. The
later layout means that the
lower gundeck gunports are a...
- 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...
-
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...
- result, when seas were too
rough for two-deckers to open
their lower deck
gunports,
frigates were
still able to
fight with all
their guns (see the action...
