Details in 'ships log'? and the numbering of secondary guns
Hi
Can I ask these here instead of making a new thread for them? thanks.
The ships log
In a ships log, would details of ship alterations be added? In other words, would they write:
day/date/time:
10:00 a.m: entered 'x' docks.
11:00 a.m: had new 'y' fitted.
4:00 p.m. removed third 3 inch gun from starboard shelter deck and plated over the opening'
Would it give such detail? or just mention the dockyard visit and time they entered and left?
The numbering of secondary guns:
On LION (and PRINCESS ROYAL) the first gun on either side of the forward shelter deck had a 2nd gun right above it.
On ships, the way to number the guns was the starboard guns had an 'S' prefix and the port a 'P'. They were then numbered from fore to aft beginning with 1. So QUEEN MARY had all her guns from S1 to S8 and P1 to P8 as they were all in one long line (sort of)
Now LIONs had these guns above their S1 and P1. Where in the S and P range would you find these guns? They are directly above S/P1.. same position, just 1 deck higher.
The basic question is how d they number a secondary battery when the guns are placed on different heights?
Cheers
p.s this image is the 'Y' turret on some capital ship (ROYAL SOVEREIGN) and it shows the '4 turns of towing hawser'. The image is quite big and I originally posted it here but that's a bit unfair for dial-up users, now I've linked to the page it's on. The image is 2nd down.. it's of a line of men holy-stoning the deck under the supervision of a PO.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/blogs/collections/2009/02/commander_stuart_a_buss.html
Anyone know how it was fixed to the deck? I've just seen other images of, co-incidentally ROYAL SOVEREIGN, and it's just coiled round the barbette with the enc of the hawser spliced into an 'eye' and that's just left untide and only held there by whatever is holding the turns of cable against the barbette side.
When I origially fixed this hawser to the deck, I used eyebolts into the deck and shackled these spliced cable ends to the eyebolts. Does that sound right?