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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 22, 2022 23:40:23 GMT
Oooow. Lots of "boy toys" on that ship. An anti-aircraft gun would be neat to have. HA HA HA. Cool photos Jacki. Thanks.
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Post by jackscrap on Feb 22, 2022 23:43:41 GMT
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Post by jackscrap on Feb 24, 2022 9:49:07 GMT
Radar Room
Chart Room
Line Throwing Gun
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 24, 2022 14:55:38 GMT
If we had that suit, my little buddy and I could sure have some fun with the neighbors.
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 24, 2022 15:44:19 GMT
Very cooolllll! At first glance, my thoughts were for shooting a line to a man overboard; that's one time he would be happy to be shot at. I wish they hadn't covered up the instructions with the info-paper. I searched "board of rope" and got several pages of foolishness and not a single nautical answer. From what I can surmise from the partial views I have found, it is a square board with pegs around the perimeter and rope is laced from peg to peg such that it will pay out cleanly without hanging up. I searched this gun and they must be quite rare as I didn't find a single Webley & Scott example; I did find numerous examples of a nearly identical British Schermuly Line-throwing Gun.(scroll down a wee bit to see a photo of the accessories used with such guns) A friend of mine, who retired from the Navy, for many years was assigned to some sort of resupplying vessel; he once showed me several photos of a resupplying operation in progress. Vessels cannot get very close, else they would beat one another to death from the violent action of the sea. They come alongside with quite a distance between them. The first step in the operation is to take one of these guns and fire a small line across to the other ship; to this, a larger line is attached and pulled across; and then, yet another larger line; and finally, a steel cable. Once a steel cable is established between the two vessels, then supplies and even people, either healthy, or wounded, sick, and disabled, can be transferred via pulley-wheeled carriages suspended from the cable and pulled back and forth by ropes.
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