Saturday, October 1, 2022

HMS Unicorn’s Gun Deck


 

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  1. It’d be dark, smoky, hot and incredibly loud. Add pitch, roll, yaw and those guns slamming back into the mix every time they fired. Wonder how many firings before those ropes just gave up?

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  2. I presume everyone below deck is deaf after the first broadside?

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    1. We rode two strokes, operated heavy machinery and worked in deafening machine shops.

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  3. The guns were stroked forward to fire, and most of the blast - and smoke, went outside. I am sure in thee frenzy of combat, a few were fired inside, and that had to be a problem. Now EVERYONE is blind with sulfur smoke

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  4. Does that gun have a "thing that goes up"?

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  5. brings to mind my days on a minesweeper. I saw a fellow CHENG over 6 feet tall walking down the pier in Bahrain all stooped over. The ceilings were awful low on those old wooden ships.

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