Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 394
w, it was used by the lieutenants as amess-room. The ward-room was over the gun-room,where the superior officers messed and slept. In action the guns were run out, by means of sidetackles, till their muzzles were well outside the port,so that the flash of the gun might not set the shipsside on… … X 1 aaX in THE NINETEENTH CENTURY with a circular hole in the centre large enough to goover the muzzle of the gun, and furnished with a pieceof canvas nailed round its edge to tie on the gun andprevent the water entering the port, although the gunremained run out. These were used chiefly on themain…
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