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Arms of a great gun
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
The trunnions.
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Armstrong gun, английский
Invented by sir william armstrong. in its most familiar form, a rifled breech-loading gun of wrought iron, constructed principally of spirally coiled bars, and occasionally having an inner tube or core of steel; ranging in size from the smallest field-piece up to the 100 pounder; rifled with numerous shallow grooves, which are taken by the expansion of the leaden coating of its projectile. late experiments however, connected with iron-plated ships are developing muzzle-loading armstrong guns, constructed on somewhat similar principles, but with simpler rifling, ranging in size up to the 600 pounder weighing 23 tons.
Armourer, английский
In a man-of-war, is a person appointed by warrant to keep the small arms in complete condition for service. as he is also the ship`s blacksmith, a mate is allowed to assist at the forge.
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