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However submarines can carry much more ammunition for the deck gun and thus can sink more ships. For that reason, despite pressure from naval authorities and public declarations of intent to attack with warning, crews preferred otherwise, sinking the majority of ships on the surface in accordance with cruiser rules up until the end of 1916. [ 14 ]
The gun that such boats carried could be quite heavy; a 32-pounder for instance. As such boats were cheap and quick to build, naval forces favoured swarm tactics: while a single hit from a frigate's broadside would destroy a gunboat, a frigate facing a large squadron of gunboats could suffer serious damage before it could manage to sink them all.
The primary armament consisted of two 120-millimeter Armstrong cannons, one forward and one aft, while the secondary armament included four 37-millimeter Armstrong cannons; two 25-millimeter Nordenfelt machine guns, and four other machine guns of unspecified caliber; the hull made of cast iron Ipanema structure and German steel plating and ...
At least two personnel on the Philippine vessel near the Second Thomas Shoal were carrying guns on deck, pointing them in the direction of China's Coast Guard, CCTV said in a social media post.
Victory carried 28 guns on each of her gundecks, but with an additional set of unused gunports to the aft of the middle deck. She was one of the last Royal Navy ships to carry a full complement of bronze cannons; after her loss the Navy switched to cheaper iron-made weapons for all first- and second-rate ships.
The last Royal Navy Q-ship, 2,456-ton HMS Fidelity, was converted in September, 1940, to carry a torpedo defense net, four 4-inch (100 mm) guns, four torpedo tubes, two OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes, and Motor Torpedo Boat 105. Fidelity sailed with a French crew, and was sunk by U-435 on 30 December 1942 during the battle for Convoy ON-154. [14]
A hotel worker had called authorities after seeing one of them, Teresa Youngblut, with a gun. Youngblut was driving the car when it was pulled over on Jan. 20, and authorities say she quickly ...
The two guns on the gun deck were mounted 10 feet (3.0 m) above the waterline, while the other four were 18 feet (5.5 m) above. [2] The guns fired 105-pound (48 kg) armor-piercing projectiles with a propellant charge weighing 18.8 pounds (8.5 kg) at 1,950 feet per second (590 m/s).