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The Lethal Chamber on a Battleship Gun
An observer recalls the tense range, crew, and tactics inside a 12 inch gun turret. The narrative follows the loader tripper umpire and gun crew as five shots are fired with silent precision, amid nerve, bans, and the danger of flarebacks, powder bags, and dreadful wrecks.
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Hell
Disraeli
Geneva
Broadway
Twenty-third Street
Missouri
The
Georgia
Minneapolis
Milly Pond
Tripper
Denness