shell-room

Updated: May 17, 2025

The deck of the cock-pit had to be kept sluiced with water from the pumps, to extinguish the fire from the shells, although dreadfully wounded men were lying on this deck, and the water was icy cold; but the shell-room hatch opened out of the cock-pit, and fire must be kept out of there at all hazards, or the whole of us would go into the air together.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - The Naval History of the United States : Volume 2

Additional coal-bunkers were also constructed, and a magazine and shell-room built in a suitable position, and these and a few other less important changes effected, the transformation was complete, and the little Sumter ready to proceed upon her work of devastation. It must not, however, be imagined that all this was done without many and vexatious delays.

Raphael Semmes - The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter