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The pit sword (also known as a rodmeter) is a blade of metal or plastic that extends into the water beneath the hull of a ship. [1] It is part of the pitometer log , a device for measuring the ship's speed through the water.
The part of the pitometer protruding from the ship is sometimes called a pit sword or rodmeter. This tube usually has two openings: one facing the direction of seawater motion that is used to measure the dynamic pressure of the seawater and one at 90° to the direction of seawater motion that is used to measure the static seawater pressure.
In June 1968 she underwent numerous minor fixes such as a boiler re-tubing and the pit sword at Port Chicago. In October 1968, the Mount Baker left for its final cruise to the Far East, carrying out its mission of underway (at-sea) transfers of ammunition to the 7th Fleet aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and the one battleship New Jersey ...
Additional titles include a role-playing video game titled Fort Zombie, a rogue-like game Sword of the Stars: The Pit, a wargame called Ground Pounders, an action-strategy game Kaiju-a-Gogo, a hybrid FPS/rogue-like The Pit: Infinity, two PC boardgames; Hoards of Glory and Planetary Control!, and two actual boardgames; Sword of the Stars ...
Sword of the Stars: The Pit is a roguelike video game developed by Kerberos Productions. It is set in the universe of the game Sword of the Stars and is self-published through funding from an Indiegogo campaign. It was released on GamersGate on February 21, 2013, and later on Steam on March 8.
The bronze swords show no damage, so it is thought that it was buried relatively early after they were made, but the exact date or purpose of the burial is unknown. All 358 bronze swords were medium-slender, around 50 to 53 cm in length, and 500 grams in weight, and date from the late middle to early late Yayoi period.
After forging the sword, Sigurð and Regin travel to Gnita-Heath in order to find Fáfnir the dragon and take his treasure. There they dig a pit in the path used by Fáfnir, [5] and then he crawled into it. When Fáfnir came to the water pit Sigurð emerged and "thrust his sword" [5] into Fáfnir, killing him.
Page of the Codex Wallerstein showing a half-sword thrust against a Mordhau move (Plate 214). In the German school of swordsmanship, Mordhau, alternatively Mordstreich or Mordschlag (in German literally "murder-stroke" or "murder-strike" or "murder-blow"), is a half-sword technique of holding the sword inverted, with both hands gripping the blade, and hitting the opponent with the pommel or ...