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2. 5-inch/38-caliber gun - Wikipedia

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   Open single pedestal mount This was the first 5"/38cal type installed. It was put on the Farragut-class destroyers in 1934 through to the Bagley class (1937). Some of these mounts placed on ship's forecastles were partially enclosed to protect the crew against bow spray, but they were still considered an open mount.

3. Johnboat - Wikipedia

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   A johnboat in Florida, 1972 A small modern johnboat in the bed of a pickup truck. A johnboat [1] is a flat-bottomed boat [2] constructed of aluminum, fiberglass, wood, or polyethelene with one, two, or three seats, usually bench type.

4. Human-powered watercraft - Wikipedia

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   Row boat; Rowing a trainera. Using oars individually, with both hands on a single oar, is sweep or sweep-oar rowing. [2] In this case the rowers are usually paired so that there is an oar on each side of the boat. Sweep-oared craft include: Coxless pair, Coxed pair, Coxless four, Coxed four, and Eight; Galley, Dromon, Trainera, and Trireme ...

5. Weapon mount - Wikipedia

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   Maxim gun mount type PS-31 from pillbox No. 186 of the Kiev Fortified Region. The mount includes elements of the machine gun cooling system. A swing mount is a fixed mount that allows a far greater and more flexible arc of fire than the simple pintle mount system. Utilising a system of one or two articulated arms the gunner can swing the weapon ...

6. Pedalo - Wikipedia

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   Water bike on Lake St. Clair (Michigan) Pedalo at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 A paddle boat on Geneva Lake (Wisconsin). Boats in Japan celebrating spring with a swan pedalo accidentally running into a row boat, 2022 Pedalos in Brazil (called pedalinhos) Human-powered watercraft: aqua-cycle water trikes in the Pacific Ocean with Diamond Head, Hawaii in the background Paddle boats located ...

7. Quarterdeck - Wikipedia

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   In medieval times, warships had a single deck, with raised structures at each end: the "forecastle" in the front, and the "aftercastle" in the rear.Following the introduction of cannon, the aftercastle was gradually replaced with a simpler structure consisting of the halfdeck above the main deck, extending forwards from the stern to the mainmast; and above that the quarterdeck, extending about ...