Casemate deck
A casemate deck ( ship casemate ) is the name for armored artillery on the deck of a warship .
Casemates on warships
Casemates were an integral part of warships up to and including the First World War to accommodate guns , mostly middle artillery , such as B. ships of the line or battleships and battle cruisers . Accordingly, the intended ship deck was called the casemate deck . In the course of the development of the modern armored ship, there was also the type of casemate ship , which was characterized by main guns set up in central armored casemates. After the First World War, was at the center of artillery as the guns of the heavy artillery for installation in turrets on. Due to the increase in the barrel height, the medium artillery could be used effectively for air defense, if the mount was designed accordingly.
Casemates, turrets, bow, stern, broadside, battery, upper deck guns are those that are used in casemates, in armored towers of land fortifications and ships, in the bow, stern, on the broad sides, in the battery or on the upper deck of Ships find their position.
Casemate gun
In the case of ship armament and fortresses, the term casemate gun means that the gun is set up behind an armored wall and the barrel is led to the outside through a movable notch that rotates with the gun. The cylindrical segment-like shape of this cover often gives the impression that a complete gun turret was built into the casemate, but this was almost never the case.