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There were also four 63 mm landing guns and six torpedo tubes.

The landing guns could be taken ashore to provide support for a landing party.

Nelson began to land guns from his ships and emplace them in the hills surrounding the town.

The ships' armaments were stripped and converted into additional land gun emplacements.

Better an aching back with a ship gun than getting your head knocked off because a land gun has big wheels!"

"Well, at all events they landed guns somewhere along the coast and they fired them and the houses fell down.

They landed guns and troops in astounding numbers and have established a veritable fortress on the shore there.

He and other lieutenants from Blonde, working in company with French naval forces, landed guns and helped to build batteries.

After she had come free, Agamemnon landed guns and shot in Kjörge Bay to form part of a battery being established there to command the city.

Just as the Ulster Volunteers knew they needed armaments, the British authorities were keen to stop them from landing guns on Irish shores.

Until then the largest guns known were Britain's 13.5-inch naval guns and the largest land guns n-inch fixed howitzers of the coast artillery.

According to Orsini her holds were full of carriages for land guns, harnesses, hides and a ground tier of guns to mount on the carriages.

The Ordnance QF 12 pounder 8 cwt was a Royal Navy "landing gun" intended for navy use ashore.

In 1914, Meredith had approached Sir Thomas Myles to use his yacht, the Chotah, to land guns for the Irish Volunteers at Kilcoole.

In support of the British Army, the Royal Navy landed guns from HMS Terrible and Powerful to help in the relief of the siege.

The overall objective of Cobra Triangle is to complete all the missions in a given amount of time while avoiding obstacles such as sharks, jumps, waterfalls, enemy land guns, and enemy boats.

He repeatedly wrote to the War Office offering his services and proposing various schemes involving Norway, including one to land guns at Spitzbergen, an area he knew well from his Arctic expedition in 1925.

It was found that the Davis gun would project a blast rearwards so the weapon was changed for a conventional 12-pounder "Naval Landing Gun" though in practice a gun was never installed in the AD.1.

Even if a ship were in and out of dock in twenty-four hours she would still be in port for a long time, for ships had to be laboriously lightened to enter the dock by landing guns, stores and tophamper.