USS Cumberland
Private
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2014
Two beautiful prints commissioned to celebrate the new dry dock in Gosport, Virginia, dedicated to the memory of Commodore William Bainbridge, U.S.N., who had just then recently passed away:
0-2 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr
0 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr
Close up of the gun ports Full battleship port lids on the lower deck, half lower lids and removable bucklers on the middle deck, and either nothing, or fully removable bucklers on the spar deck. By the time of the Civil War, the navy was committed to double hinged bucklers for all enclosed gun decks, except maybe for those few battleships still in service:
0-1 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr
Close up of the gun ports Full battleship port lids on the lower deck, half lower lids and removable bucklers on the middle deck, and either nothing, or fully removable bucklers on the spar deck. By the time of the Civil War, the navy was committed to double hinged bucklers for all enclosed gun decks, except maybe for those few battleships still in service: