The 3-inch plating on the main deck was added at a very late stage of construction and the four aftermost 5.5-inch guns and their ammunition hoists were removed in partial compensation.
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In the Royal Navy, the sloop evolved into an unrated vessel with a single gun deck and three masts, two square rigged and the aftermost fore-and-aft rigged ( corvettes had three masts, all of which were square-rigged ).
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Six of the eight five-barreled revolving Hotchkiss guns were mounted in small sponsons that projected from the hull with the aftermost pair mounted in embrasures in the hull in " Ekaterina II " and " Chesma " to defend the ship against torpedo boats.
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All wrecks discovered so far have limber holes; these are different from the free flooding holes that are located only in the foremost and aftermost compartments, but are at the base of the transverse bulkheads allowing water in each compartment to drain to the lowest compartment, thus facilitating pumping.
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In discussing the utility of the " non-recoil principle " of fixing carronades to the deck, James mentions that during the Vlieter Incident " Eling " fired some 400 shots from her aftermost carronade without sustaining the slightest damage to even a pane of glass in the cabin skylight, or injury to anyone.
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In 1901, " Euterpe " was sold to the Alaska Packers'Association of San Francisco, who re-rigged her as a barque ( converting the square-rigged aftermost mast to fore-and-aft ) and in 1902 began carrying fishermen, cannery workers, coal and canning supplies each spring from Oakland, California to Nushagak in the Bering Sea, returning each fall with holds full of canned salmon.
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