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The term gun deck used to refer to a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannon to be fired in broadsides. The term is generally applied to decks enclosed under a roof; smaller and unrated vessels carried their guns on the upper deck , forecastle and quarterdeck , and these were not described as gun decks.
HMS Asia (1811), British 74-gun warship A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. [1] Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery and thus not counted as a full gun deck.
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line.With 246 years of service as of 2024, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.She was ordered for the Royal Navy in 1758, during the Seven Years' War and laid down in 1759.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate [Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.
The middle gun deck had heavy fortified culverins – that is, guns short for their bore – fore and aft. There were two 11.5-foot (3.5 m) pieces, weighing 4.8 tons (4800 kg), in the fore chase; four 11.5-foot (3.5 m) pieces, weighing 10.2 tons (10200 kg), in the stern chase.
Middle gun deck: 28 × 32-pdrs, 2 × 68-pdr carronades; ... HMS Queen was a 110-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 May 1839 at ...
Quarter deck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 1 × 68 pdr HMS Victoria was a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy . She and her sister ship HMS Howe were the first and only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, and were the largest wooden battleships of their time.
HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy ... Two of these guns on the shelter deck were temporarily replaced by QF 4-inch (102 mm) ...