A gunroom is the junior officers' mess on a naval vessel. It was occupied by the officers below the rank of lieutenant. In wooden sailing ships it was...
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Jopson Edward Ashley as Officers' Steward William Gibson Charlie Kelly as Gunroom Steward Thomas Armitage Guy Faulkner as Able Seaman Samuel Crispe Stephen...
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leaving few survivors. Ammunition dump Armory Arsenal Gunpowder magazine Gunroom Garzke, William H.; Dulin, Robert O. (1985). Battleships: Axis and Neutral...
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Holland & Holland started a major expansion programme. The company has a gunroom in Dallas and formerly had additional locations. Its gun room in New York...
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ages of 11 and 13 who were considered future midshipmen and lived in the gunroom on a ship-of-the-line or with the midshipmen on a frigate or smaller vessel...
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March 2017. Brown, Anthony Gary (2014). "Patrick and Mary O'Brian". The Gunroom of HMS Surprise. Retrieved 18 February 2017. Bennett, Stuart (1994). "Four...
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foray into novels. He collected guns and wrote one mystery, Murder in the Gunroom. In 1964, his career apparently on the skids, and prevented by reticence...
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the Aubrey–Maturin series. A Gunroom guide to Patrick O'Brian Web Resources – comprehensive annotated link list The Gunroom of HMS Surprise: resource and...
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standing warrant officer. On large ships, he had his own cabin in the gunroom, but on smaller vessels he lived with the midshipmen on the orlop deck...
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compensated an extra threepence (3d) a day. The issue of rum to wardroom and gunroom officers was stopped in 1881 and ended for warrant officers in 1918; splicing...
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