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- ship. Removing the guns from this deck allowed the height of the hull upperworks to be lowered, giving the resulting 'true-frigate' much improved sailing...
- rebranded as SeaFrance. Prior to 1964/65, the colours were black hull, white upperworks and black-topped buff funnel. From 1972/73, Sealink was displa**** in white...
- slightly upgraded in 1783 with the replacement of the 6 pounders on her upperworks with 12-pounder cannon, and the addition of two carronade guns, firing...
- Kulakov leaving Portsmouth, UK in August 2012. Vice-Admiral Kulakov's upperworks and Top Plate radar. SS-N-14 Silex missiles aboard Vice-Admiral Kulakov...
- who said that the ship did not have enough "belly" to carry the heavy upperworks. When other ships that predated stability calculations were found to lack...
- term is also commonly applied to the holes in mid-20th century submarine upperworks, which allow drainage from the superstructure. Chapelle, Howard I. (1994...
- location is the shack, named after the small enclosures added to the upperworks of naval ships to hold early radio equipment and batteries. See also An...
- the broadside were thought to be of great value in demolishing a ship's upperworks and secondary armaments, as distances of battle were limited by fire control...
- fire-weapon and produce great conflagrations in which sails, bulwarks, upperworks and oars all catch fire and cannot withstand it. Fishes and tortoises...
- awareness that the reduction in topweight afforded by the removal of upperworks made ships better sailers; Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds noted after...