Gun port, the Glossary
A gunport is an opening in the side of the hull of a ship, above the waterline, which allows the muzzle of artillery pieces mounted on the gun deck to fire outside.[1]
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68 relations: Action of 13 January 1797, Action of 4 August 1800, Barbette, Battle of Hampton Roads, Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Quiberon Bay, Battle of Sluys, Battle of Ushant (1778), Battle of Ushant (1782), Caravel, Carrack, Casemate, Central battery ship, Chase gun, Clinker (boat building), Conquest of the Canary Islands, CSS Virginia, Dreadnought, East Indiaman, Embrasure, En flûte, Firing port, Forecastle, Freeboard (nautical), French frigate Forte (1794), French frigate Médée (1778), French frigate Sibylle (1791), French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794), French ship Vengeur du Peuple, Galley, Georges Fournier (Jesuit), Gun deck, Gun turret, HMS Amazon (1795), HMS Argo (1781), HMS Brunswick (1790), HMS Indefatigable (1784), Hull (watercraft), Ironclad warship, Jean de Béthencourt, Jean Froissart, Jean Meyer (historian, 1924), John II of Portugal, Lisbon, Man-of-war, Mary Rose, Mississippi Company, Naval warfare, Paixhans gun, Portugal, ... Expand index (18 more) »
Action of 13 January 1797
The action of 13 January 1797 (known by the French as the Naufrage du Droits de l'Homme; "shipwreck of the Droits de l'Homme") was a minor naval battle fought between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Action of 4 August 1800
The action of 4 August 1800 was a highly unusual naval engagement that took place off the Brazilian coast during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Barbette
Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships.
Battle of Hampton Roads
The Battle of Hampton Roads, also referred to as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed as the CSS Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War.
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Battle of Lepanto
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.
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Battle of Quiberon Bay
The Battle of Quiberon Bay (known as Bataille des Cardinaux in French) was a decisive naval engagement during the Seven Years' War.
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Battle of Sluys
The Battle of Sluys, also called the Battle of l'Écluse, was a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340 between England and France.
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Battle of Ushant (1778)
The Battle of Ushant (also called the First Battle of Ushant) took place on 27 July 1778, and was fought during the American Revolutionary War between French and British fleets west of Ushant, an island at the mouth of the English Channel off the westernmost point of France.
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Battle of Ushant (1782)
The Third Battle of Ushant or the action of 20–21 April 1782 was a naval battle fought during the American Revolutionary War, between a French naval fleet of three ships of the line protecting a convoy and two British Royal naval ships of the line off Ushant, a French island at the mouth of the English Channel off the northwesternmost point of France.
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Caravel
The caravel (Portuguese: caravela) is a small maneuverable sailing ship that uses both lateen and square sails and was known for its agility and speed and its capacity for sailing windward (beating).
Carrack
A carrack is a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship that was developed in the 14th to 15th centuries in Europe, most notably in Portugal and Spain.
Casemate
A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.
Central battery ship
The central battery ship, also known as a centre battery ship in the United Kingdom and as a casemate ship in European continental navies, was a development of the (high-freeboard) broadside ironclad of the 1860s, given a substantial boost due to the inspiration gained from the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between ironclads fought in 1862 during the American Civil War.
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Chase gun
A chase gun (or chaser), usually distinguished as bow chaser and stern chaser, was a cannon mounted in the bow (aiming forward) or stern (aiming backward) of a sailing ship. Gun port and chase gun are naval artillery.
Clinker (boat building)
Clinker-built (also known as lapstrake) is a method of boat building in which the edges of hull planks overlap each other.
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Conquest of the Canary Islands
The conquest of the Canary Islands by the Crown of Castile took place between 1402 and 1496 and described as the first instance of European settler colonialism in Africa.
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CSS Virginia
CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the razéed (cut down) original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate.
Dreadnought
The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.
East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries.
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Embrasure
An embrasure (or crenel or crenelle; sometimes called gunhole in the domain of gunpowder-era architecture) is the opening in a battlement between two raised solid portions (merlons).
En flûte
En flûte (French: "as a fluyt") is a French naval expression of the Age of Sail to designate the use of a warship as a transport with reduced armament.
Firing port
A firing port, sometimes called a pistol port, is a small opening in armored vehicles, fortified structures like bunkers, or other armored equipment that allows small arms to be safely fired out of the vehicle at enemy infantry, often to cover vehicle or building blindspots.
Forecastle
The forecastle (contracted as fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically, the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.
Freeboard (nautical)
In sailing and boating, a vessel's freeboard is the distance from the waterline to the upper deck level, measured at the lowest point of sheer where water can enter the boat or ship.
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French frigate Forte (1794)
Forte was a French 42-gun frigate, lead ship of her class.
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French frigate Médée (1778)
Médée was an ''Iphigénie''-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy.
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French frigate Sibylle (1791)
Sibylle was a 38-gun of the French Navy.
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French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794)
) was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. Launched in 1794, the ship saw service in the Atlantic against the British Royal Navy. She was part of the fleet that sailed in December 1796 on the disastrous Expédition d'Irlande. After unsuccessful attempts to land troops on Ireland, the Droits de l'Homme headed back to her home port of Brest with the soldiers still on board.
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French ship Vengeur du Peuple
Vengeur du Peuple ("Avenger of the People") was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
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Galley
A galley was a type of ship which relied mostly on oars for propulsion that was used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe.
Georges Fournier (Jesuit)
Georges Fournier (31 August 1595 – 13 April 1652) was a French Jesuit priest, geographer and mathematician.
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Gun deck
The term gun deck used to refer to a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannon to be fired in broadsides.
Gun turret
A gun turret (or simply turret) is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim.
HMS Amazon (1795)
HMS Amazon, was a 36-gun ''Amazon''-class frigate, built at Rotherhithe in 1795 to a design by Sir William Rule.
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HMS Argo (1781)
HMS Argo was a 44-gun fifth-rate ''Roebuck''-class ship of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Brunswick (1790)
HMS Brunswick was a 74-gun third rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 April 1790 at Deptford.
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HMS Indefatigable (1784)
HMS Indefatigable was one of the 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy.
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Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat. Gun port and hull (watercraft) are Watercraft components.
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Ironclad warship
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.
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Jean de Béthencourt
Jean de Béthencourt (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanzarote.
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Jean Froissart
Jean Froissart (Old and Middle French: Jehan; sometimes known as John Froissart in English; –) was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including Chronicles and Meliador, a long Arthurian romance, and a large body of poetry, both short lyrical forms as well as longer narrative poems.
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Jean Meyer (historian, 1924)
Jean Meyer (11 November 1924 – 18 April 2022) was a French historian who specialised in naval and maritime topics.
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John II of Portugal
John II (João II;; 3 May 1455 – 25 October 1495), called the Perfect Prince (o Príncipe Perfeito), was King of Portugal from 1481 until his death in 1495, and also for a brief time in 1477.
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Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.
Man-of-war
In Royal Navy jargon, a man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or simply man) was a powerful warship or frigate of the 16th to the 19th century, that was frequently used in Europe.
Mary Rose
The Mary Rose was a carrack in the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII.
Mississippi Company
The Mississippi Company (Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies.
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Naval warfare
Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving a major body of water such as a large lake or wide river.
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Paixhans gun
The Paixhans gun (French: Canon Paixhans) was the first naval gun designed to fire explosive shells.
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Pre-dreadnought battleship
Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built from the mid- to late- 1880s to the early 1900s.
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Quarterdeck
The quarterdeck is a raised deck behind the main mast of a sailing ship.
Quincunx
A quincunx is a geometric pattern consisting of five points arranged in a cross, with four of them forming a square or rectangle and a fifth at its center.
Scuttling
A ship is scuttled when its crew deliberately sinks it, typically by opening holes in its hull.
Setúbal
Setúbal (Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.
Seventy-four (ship)
The "seventy-four" was a type of two-decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns.
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Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century.
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Shipwrecking
Shipwrecking is an event that causes a shipwreck, such as a ship striking something that causes the ship to sink; the stranding of a ship on rocks, land or shoal; poor maintenance, resulting in a lack of seaworthiness; or the destruction of a ship either intentionally or by violent weather.
Siege of Rhodes (1480)
In 1480 the small Knights Hospitaller garrison of Rhodes withstood an attack of the Ottoman Empire.
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Striking the colors
Striking the colors—meaning lowering the flag (the "colors") that signifies a ship's or garrison's allegiance—is a universally recognized indication of surrender, particularly for ships at sea.
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Torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle.
Ulm
Ulm is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city.
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USS Monitor
USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy.
Vasa (ship)
Vasa or Wasa is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628.
War of Chioggia
The War of Chioggia (Guerra di Chioggia) was a conflict fought by the Republic of Genoa against the Republic of Venice between 1378 and 1381, the conclusion of an open confrontation that had lasted for years and which had already included some occasional and limited military clashes.
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Waterline
The waterline is the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water.
18-pounder long gun
The 18-pounder long gun was an intermediary calibre piece of naval artillery mounted on warships of the Age of Sail.
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36-pounder long gun
The 36-pounder long gun was the largest piece of artillery mounted on French warships of the Age of Sail.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_port
Also known as Gun-port, Gunport.
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