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| - | [[ | + | [[The Hundred Days]] contains a description of the various implements used to fight the guns of HMS ''Surprise'' or any other vessel of the period, listing "...the coiled muzzle-lashing, made fast to the eye-bolt above the [[gun port|port-lid]], the [[service|seizing]] of the mid-breeching to the [[pommelion]], the neat arrangement of the [[sponge]], [[handspike]], [[powder-horn]], [[priming-wire]], [[bed]], [[quoin]], [[tackle|train-tackle]], [[shot]] and all the rest...."<ref> O'Brian, Patrick. ''The Hundred Days''. (c) 1998 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, NY: p. 38</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:13, 31 January 2009
The Hundred Days contains a description of the various implements used to fight the guns of HMS Surprise or any other vessel of the period, listing "...the coiled muzzle-lashing, made fast to the eye-bolt above the port-lid, the seizing of the mid-breeching to the pommelion, the neat arrangement of the sponge, handspike, powder-horn, priming-wire, bed, quoin, train-tackle, shot and all the rest...."[1]
References
- ↑ O'Brian, Patrick. The Hundred Days. (c) 1998 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, NY: p. 38
