Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night. He once got himself punished for letting off fireworks in the head. A pale, slim sublieutenant, sometimes doubled up with pains diagnosed much later as an ulcer, he saw action in the Battle of Jutland, where, as "Mr. Johnston," he was second-in-command of "A" turret aboard H.M.S. Collingwood. "The King," remembered Turret Commander W.E.C. Tait years later, "made cocoa as usual for me and the gun crew during the battle...
...night last week the 45,000-ton U.S. battleship Wisconsin (which relieved the New Jersey last month) lay off Korea's east coast, firing her secondary batteries of 5-in. guns in support of U.N. ground troops ashore. Finally came a call for heavier fire. The No. 2 turret crew swung into action and five 16-in. shells, weighing a ton apiece, whistled into the target area, 8,000 yards away...
...operating theater, the TV camera's lens turret is mounted in the overhead light, directly above the surgeon's table. This has two advantages: it keeps the lens turret out of the surgeon's way, and it keeps him out of the camera's way-no surgeon gets in his own light while operating. To cut down reflected glare, some of the shiny instruments have been given a dull, gun-metal finish...
...within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right, he squeezed a pistol-like trigger, firing the first gun. The ship's crockery rattled...
...Soviet navy's six newest cruisers of the "improved Kirov class" (9,500 tons, twelve 7.1-in. rifles in triple-turret batteries) are fast, heavy ships, not as powerful as their U.S. opposites (cruisers of the Brooklyn class) but not taken lightly by U.S. Navy men. Swedish naval intelligence revealed that last month, two of these sleek new Soviet sharks (probably the Chapaev and the Chkalov) slipped out of the Baltic through the Oresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. It was the first time since the late 1930s that heavy Soviet naval vessels had been out in the Atlantic...