shell-chamber

Updated: June 25, 2025

Now down the stairs and through the narrow openings in the bulkheads, where the thud of the hostile projectiles sounds more and more hollow, and here, at last, is the door of the shell-chamber containing the shells for the 8-inch guns in the forward starboard turret. Inside the bells rang and rattled, calling in vain for ammunition; but the guns of the Connecticut still remained silent.

Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff - Banzai! by Parabellum