Word: gunports
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...magazine's 9-inch armor ceiling-a total of 13¼ inches of armor. But the bomb would explode and stop penetrating when it hit the very first deck. Alternatively, it would have to penetrate the 10-inch armor of a turret barbette; or blast in through a gunport, ignite a powder train down through an elevator to the magazine. Ever since three British capital ships were blown up at Jutland by failure of their flash screens, turret design has been perfected to render such accidents next to impossible. Clever though their story was, the Germans' "battleship bombed...
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