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Updated: July 27, 2025
"I'm going up to the navy yard at Mare Island," the port captain declared, "to see if I cannot pick up a couple of six-inch rifles of the model they used when I was in the navy. They're obsolete now, but I understand them and while I'm getting the guns I'll pick up four or five old navy men. Leave it to me, Mr. Ricks." "We'll give 'em hell!" shouted Cappy.
He had held his breath for the necessary two minutes! Douglas jerked the blaster up and fired, but his target was too quick. George dropped and rolled. The sizzling streak of violet flashed inches above his body and tore a six-inch hole through the back of the cell. And then George was on him!
At the door of a darkened house two squares to the north Morley knocked with a peculiar sequence of raps. The door opened to the length of a six-inch chain, and the pompous, important black face of an African guardian imposed itself in the opening. Morley was admitted. In a third-story room, in an atmosphere opaque with smoke, he hung for ten minutes above a roulette wheel.
F. Perdomo Joaquin Ramirez Morales Amable Damiron Jaime Ratto Pedro N. Polanco, Notary Public Leonardo Delmonte I Aponte, Notary Public Mariano Montolio, Notary Public." The vault so opened was a little larger than that opened in 1795, and separated therefrom by a six-inch wall.
Some of six-inch bore fire as high as eight aimed shots a minute, but this is only under ideal conditions. Great care is being taken now to prolong the "life" of the big guns by using non-corrosive material for the charges.
The fourth day, a second fish of the same group was placed beside the first, and I was bidden to point out the resemblances and differences between the two; another and another followed, until the entire family lay before me, and a whole legion of jars covered the table and surrounding shelves; the odor had become a pleasant perfume; and even now, the sight of an old, six-inch, worm-eaten cork brings fragrant memories.
The officers told us that they had been expecting proper guns daily for the past two months. Marigold shook a sad head. But all things, even six-inch howitzers, come to him who waits. Little more was heard of Randall Holmes. He corresponded with his mother through a firm of London solicitors, and his address and his doings remained a mystery.
Her battery, however, was well selected and powerful. She carried on each side two six-inch rifles, and at each end one seven-inch rifle six guns in all. There were, besides the Tennessee, three wooden gunboats, and Farragut was informed that there were also four ironclads; but this, as regards the lower bay at least, was a mistake.
The shape of the gun had been made to conform to the strains brought by the discharge upon its various parts, as determined by careful experiment; and in place of the 32-pounder, or six-inch gun, which had been the principal weapon of the earlier ships, the batteries of the new frigates and sloops were composed chiefly of nine-inch guns, with one or more pivots of ten- or eleven-inch bore.
Following their completion, the two six-inch guns Cappy had succeeded in getting from the navy were lifted out of the hold with the aid of the cargo winch and placed in position, one forward and the other aft. Thereupon the mate took charge of the Costa Rica, while Mike Murphy drilled his crew in range finding and celerity in loading the piece.
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