Sentence examples for steady gun from inspiring English sources

The ship was considered "a steady gun platform, able to maintain her speed in a seaway and satisfactory in manoeuvre".

Minotaur was considered "an excellent sea-boat and a steady gun platform, but unhandy under steam and practically unmanageable under sail" as built.

Hood had a metacentric height of 4.2 feet at deep load, which minimised her roll and made her a steady gun platform.

Agincourt was considered "an excellent sea-boat and a steady gun platform, but unhandy under steam and practically unmanageable under sail" as built.

Kniaz Pozharsky was fitted with a double bottom and was considered to be a steady gun platform and a good sea boat.

Because of the extra topweight of the turrets in comparison to their half-sisters their stability was reduced which made them very good seaboats and steady gun platforms.

A shiny chain-link fence slices across the hill, bisecting the long-forgotten sheikh's vault from end to end, like a magician's sword-trick.On one side, tense, combat-ready Israeli soldiers steady gun-barrels through the wire.

Audacious, and her sisters, were the steadiest gun platforms among the large British ironclads of their era.

In the demo, we were shown how these motors could be used to simulate a human heart-beat, the sensation of steady machine gun fire and the sensation of starting the engine of a car.

Steady the gun with your other hand.

They were met with steady machine-gun fire from German pillboxes.