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A moment of Gunner Zen, Navy style again...

By The Armorer on February 27, 2011 | | Comments (11)
But it's appropriate - sailors on the big-gun ships are just another form of self-propelled artillerymen.

Gun deck of the HMS Northumberland

The last of the Royal Navy's "broadside" battleships.  She was a tenacious old bird - commissioned in 1866, she had ever-diminishing roles until she was finally sold for scrapping in 1927.

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By Grimmy on February 27, 2011 4:30 PM
Nice bit of photo perspective reminding why "loose cannon" is not a good thing to be.
 
By BillT on February 27, 2011 6:44 PM
...sailors on the big-gun ships are just another form of self-propelled artillerymen.

Does the FO party rate their own rowboat?
 
By Boquisucio on February 27, 2011 7:25 PM
Pitty, if it would have survived just ten or fifteen years longer, and it would have been preserved and turned into a museum.
 
By sturmvogel on February 27, 2011 9:06 PM
Umm, not so much. HMS Warrior, the first iron-hulled broadside ironclad, is still afloat. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warrior_%281860%29
 
By Saker on February 28, 2011 2:09 AM
This leads to an interesting question: Who would win, the HMS Northumberland, or this Somalian pirate mothership I've been reading so much about?

Give the dirty scum a full broadside!!
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 28, 2011 4:07 AM
Sturmvogel - I was really after the fact that she was of the last her type (i.e. broadside gunned, vice the turreted pre-Dreadnoughts) but I'm starting to think I should just STFU anymore. 
 
By BillT on February 28, 2011 7:12 AM
"Scurvy dogs" is the appropriately nautical phrase, Saker.

Although it would be perfectly acceptable to combine the two, as in, "Argghhh! Give the dirty, scurvy, dog-scum a full broadside, me hearties, an' sink 'em 'neath the lowland sea!"
 
By Saker on February 28, 2011 9:15 AM
Hmmm. My Navy-speak needs work.


 
By Quartermaster on February 28, 2011 7:25 PM
Bll the FIST gets their own Sloop. They also have their own reefer full of suds of the post-spalsh party. See what you missed by choosing  so poorly?
 
By Justthisguy on March 1, 2011 12:38 AM
Hey! Those look like breech-loaders! Are you encouraging sodomy here, or what?
 
By BillT on March 1, 2011 5:18 AM
Well, as the First Sea Lord once opined, "Rum, sodomy, and the lash."

Never forget the rum. Mistress Mandy, the former D 'n' D moderator at the former VC, supplies the lash -- eh, Sly?