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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. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun Fifth rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships of ...
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A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...
[2] In the 1859 programme the two types were merged to produce a 91-gun ship with the dimensions of the 101-gun type. Two ships built on this plan - the Bulwark and Robust, the latter having been commenced as a 101-gun ship - were preserved on the stocks until 1872, the remaining seven being converted into ironclads. [3] These last two-deckers ...
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The 74-gun ship carried 28 (24-pounders – to 36-pounders) on the lower gun deck, 28–30 (18 – to 24-pounders) on the upper gun deck, and 14–18 (6 – to 12-pounders) on the upper works. [2] Crew size was around 500 to 750 men depending on design, circumstances and nationality, with British ships tending to have smaller crews than other ...
Digital shelf labels will lessen the burden of updating prices on 120,000 items at Walmart stores. Walmart is replacing its price labels with digital screens—but the company swears it won’t ...