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2. Fort Wadsworth - Wikipedia

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   The 6-inch and 4.72-inch Armstrong guns were purchased from the United Kingdom, to rapidly deploy medium caliber quick-firing guns at the forts. [10] The guns of the temporary 8-inch batteries were removed soon after the war ended (also in 1898), to be deployed in the new Endicott batteries, while the Armstrong guns remained in service until ...

3. Fort Levett - Wikipedia

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   1909 view of two 12-inch disappearing guns of Battery Bowdoin and Ram Island Ledge. 12-inch disappearing gun, similar to those at Fort Levett.. Fort Levett was a former U.S. Army fort built on Cushing Island, Maine, beginning in 1898.

4. Little Harbor 44 - Wikipedia

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   A solid teak toe rail, handrails, drip rail, cockpit coaming cups, and seat fiddles are all fitted as well. There are 5 solid teak dorade boxes with plexiglass tops and stainless steel cowl vents. The compass is a 6-inch Danforth Constellation in a stainless steel binnacle. The reacher and genoa tracks are stainless steel and include lead blocks.

5. Bridge (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   On the smallest surface vessels, such as a sport fishing boat, the flying bridge may have controls permitting the ship to be piloted from the flying bridge, but will lack the full range of controls of the pilot house. On larger small vessels, the flying bridge may actually be enclosed, in which case it is more properly called an "upper pilot ...

6. Fort Totten (Queens) - Wikipedia

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   Fort Totten's 5-inch, 8-inch, 10-inch, and 12-inch batteries were dismounted in 1917–1918 as potential railway or, in the case of the 5-inchers, field artillery. Battery Mahan's two 12-inch guns and Battery Sumner's pair of 8-inch guns were transferred to the railway artillery program.

7. Ship's wheel - Wikipedia

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   A ship's wheel or boat's wheel is a device used aboard a ship, boat, submarine, or airship, in which a helmsman steers the vessel and control its course. Together with the rest of the steering mechanism, it forms part of the helm (the term helm can mean the wheel alone, or the entire mechanism by which the rudder is controlled [ 1 ] ).