- 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...
