gunhouse

He called the gunhouse several times but there was no reply.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

He ordered two ratings to continue calling the gunhouse, opened the escape hatch to the magazine, and then told everyone to abandon it.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

One of these shells landed on B turret just between the two guns, ripping off the front armour plate and killing eight men at the front of the gunhouse.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

The gunhouse crew were all flung into the back of the turret, and when the Officer of the Quarters,

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

Ordering the telegraphists to stay at then - posts, he climbed out of the gunhouse to go up to warn the bridge, but finding it had already been wrecked he went back to the gunhouse to tell the men to abandon it.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

Then he saw daylight coming in through the left rear door of the gunhouse, which had been blown open, and he made his way out on deck.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

Earlier, in the B turret of the Achilles, there had been a temporary delay in the shell supply, and the gunhouse crews took the ready-use shells from their racks and fed them into the guns.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

The section on armament is the most detailed of these, opening with 1: 64 scale plans of a 12-inch gun turret, featuring multiple cross-sections through the gunhouse and closeups of the breech mechanism and loading arm.

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"When this had been done," Puddifoot wrote, "I once more challenged the gunhouse and still having no reply I decided to abandon and ordered everybody on to the Boy's and Torpedo messdecks to await further orders ....

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956