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Private armed vessel
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A non-governmental vessel which carries weapons and ammunition for defensive purposes only. under admiralty law such a vessel is non-combatant and does not acquire the legal status of warship or privateer. (see also public armed vessel.)
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Ammunition, английский
- Боеприпасы
- This word had an infinite variety of meanings. it includes every description of warlike stores, comprehending not only the ordnance, but the powder, balls, bullets, cartridges, and equipments.—ammunition bread, that which is for the supply of armies or garrisons.—ammunition chest, a box placed abaft near the stern or in the tops of men-of-war, to contain ammunition, for the arms therein placed, in readiness for immediate action.—ammunition shoes, those made for soldiers and sailors, and particularly for use by those frequenting the magazine, being soft and free from metal.—ammunition waggon, a close cart for conveying military effects.—ammunition wife, a name applied to women of doubtful character.
- The explosive and propellant components of military projectiles, including bullets, bombs, cartridges, fuses, grenades, mines, missiles, powder, primers, pyrotechnics, rockets, shot, shrapnel, and the like.
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Private vessel, английский
One neither owned nor chartered by a government.
Prison hulks, английский
Ships too worn-out to use in combat, but still afloat, were a common form of internment in britain and elsewhere during the 18th and 19th centuries. in great expectations, dickens describes “a black hulk lying out a little way from the shore, cribbed and barred, and moored by massive rusty chains.” such ships were used to detain prisoners-of-war during the american revolutionary and napoleonic wars. private companies owned and operated convict hulks and the harbor location of these floating prisons was also convenient for the temporary accommodation of persons awaiting penal transportation. the conversion of a famous fighting ship into a prison hulk is described by david cordingly in his book billy ruffian (bloomsbury, 2003): the crew stripped her of everything that had made her a warship the guns were removed and the stores of the bosun, the cook, the carpenter, the gunner, and the sailmaker were taken out. the rigging was dismantled, and the masts and bowsprit lifted out by the sheer hulk. out too came the barrels of food and water, the coal for the galley, and several tons of shingle ballast. the last job of the crew was to scrub the hammocks and wash down the decks.... the pay captain from the dockyard came aboard and paid the sailors of the ship’s company. the marines had already been discharged.... the ship’s log-book ... concluded with the words “sunset, haul down the (commissioning) pendant.” then shipwrights and carpenters from the dockyard removed her gunport covers, fitted bars in the openings, ripped out her internal bulkheads, and installed long lines of cages below deck. a variation of the prison hulk was the juvenile detention vessel.
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