Word: armorer
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...battleship. Airplane bombs can damage ships in two ways: by direct hits or by bursting in the water alongside. At heights where there is reasonable immunity from anti-aircraft fire, direct hits are hard to obtain; and at lesser heights, bombs are not able to pierce modern deck armor. Explosions alongside are not seriously dangerous to ships with modern con- struction. Accounts of tests and their results were given in detail...
...German cruiser Frankfort was also sunk under similar conditions. She had light armor, thin decks, lay at anchor undefended and unrepaired during a seven-and-a-half-hours' bombardment in fine weather, with airplanes flying not over 2,000 feet in altitude...
...explosions, no loss of life could possibly be caused by bombing of this sort. After these explosions, a three-days' gale came up; even after this the Washington was in such a condition that she could still be towed to port. Two airplanes tried to drop armor-piercing projectiles upon her from 4,000 feet. One plane, after eight trial flights, dropped its bomb in the water. The other plane, on its fourth flight, scored a hit. The bomb was a 1,440-pound armor-piercing shell, but without explosive. It did not pierce the deck armor, although it might...
...bulkheads, etc. Second, shells fired contain reduced charges of explosives, because they are mainly intended to pierce and not to explode. Third, results of the shooting are carefully recorded and this requires time, especially when the stricken ship has to be visited in order that the effect of armor-piercing shells can be accurately ascertained...
...suit of armor for Sir Florian...