gundeck

At Trafalgar, Nelson's flagship HMS Victory cleared the gundeck of the French ship of the line Bucentaure with a single salvo, including one of these beauties, firing a raking shot through the stern windows, and causing almost 300 casualties with a single volley ...

The World's Largest Shotgun Shell? 2008

Similarly differences in tendancy to gundeck (cheat on logs) could give a temp bias and might be part of the offset corection and would vary by lattitude (colder, more likely to gundeck, I guess).

SST Adjustment #2 « Climate Audit 2005

“Only an old timber here and there kept the poop from crashing down on the gundeck.”

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

“Only an old timber here and there kept the poop from crashing down on the gundeck.”

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

He dimly heard an explosion, saw flames illuminate the black smoke filling the enemy's gundeck, then he left Simmons to throw the other grenades while he went back down the deck, stepping past bodies, avoiding the gunners, checking each gunport to make sure no more Frenchmen were trying to reach through with cutlass or pike.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

The army's field artillery, none of it so big as these guns, was fired with a linstock, a slow match that glowed red as it burned, but no naval Captain would dare have a glowing red-hot linstock lying loose on a gundeck where so much powder lay waiting to explode.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

It would be the last hot meal the men would enjoy before battle, for the galley fires would have to be doused in case an enemy shot struck the oven and scattered fire across a gundeck where the powder bags waited to be loaded.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

Lucy made it as far as the lower gundeck, where she found several gunners preparing for battle, and five powder monkeys, most still in their teens, arguing over who should be promoted to gunner now that their master was dead.

Thief Of Hearts Medeiros, Teresa 1994

"When I asked you to go below, I didn't mean to the bloody lower gundeck."

Thief Of Hearts Medeiros, Teresa 1994

Too late, she realized she'd burst not onto the lower gundeck as she'd hoped, but onto the quarterdeck, the most visible of the upper decks.

Thief Of Hearts Medeiros, Teresa 1994