gun-port

Even the creak of the opening gun-port would be too loud.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

"There was one more method of getting from the ship," Andros continues, "and that was at night to steal down through a gun-port which we had managed to open unbeknown to the guard, and swim ashore."

American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

Within half an hour after the anchor was dropped the young prisoners heard the creak of the davit blocks, and a moment later the splash of a boat taking water close to the nearest gun-port.

The Black Buccaneer 1934

"Here's a place to board!" the Delaware boy was saying, and pointed toward the forward gun-port which stood open just beyond and above the bow of the longboat.

The Black Buccaneer 1934

The side was cut for a gun-port, which opened and shut by means of laniards; and, pointing through the opened port was a model brass nine-pounder on its carriage, with all its roping correctly rigged, and its sponges and rammers hooked up above it ready for use.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

In a while, my eyes growing strong, I got me to the main-deck, where again I must stay to shade my eyes by reason of the radiance that poured through an open gun-port.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

He heard a few pistol shots and then was startled to see a spurt of flame dart from a gun-port of the sloop.

Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

Most of them went up the side like cats, leaping for the chains and dead-eyes, slashing at the nettings, swinging by a rope's end, or digging their toes in a crack of a gun-port.

Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

He wore big round owlish spectacles, and his pale broad face and long nose, combined with a wild crop of light hair and a fierce beard, gave him the incongruous appearance of a sheep looking out of a gun-port.

Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers F. Anstey 1895

When the flash of the explosion and the yellow fumes of the bursting charge had cleared away, there became visible a black, ragged hole where the gun-port had been, and the gun itself, blown from its mountings, was pointing its muzzle upward to the sky, useless for the rest of the action.

A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Harry Collingwood 1886