A small shell had entered the casemate by the gap between the chase of the gun and the shield, and had exploded, killing every man of the crew of the six-inch.
The voice tube and electric wires communicating with that particular casemate were long out of action.
The wretches who lifted the shutter of the Judas and spied upon him, believed he would soon change his silent casemate for a silent coffin.
He was put into a cell--a casemate originally intended for a cannon.
United States forts of the early 1800's used casemate and barbette carriages (fig.
Upon each side of the casemate opposite the sally-port is a niche for holy water, and at the farther end the Chapel.
Feigning sickness, he was removed into a casemate giving him air, there being an aperture two feet high by nine inches wide in the wall about thirteen feet above the floor, and under it a platform five feet high.
The casemate contained only a few remnants of damp straw, already spoiled and broken up by some Bavarian soldiers, and each man had to grope for a clean spot on the bare floor.
A body of armed men appeared at the door of the casemate in considerable confusion.
Then they were searched, and stripped of everything they carried (even the breviaries were taken away), and conducted to Casemate No.
The advantage of the casemate lies in its comparative cheapness and the greater strength of a fixed structure.
The masonry of the casemate guns in the caponier, first flank and low battery, is protected by earth, a la Haxo.
Clarke's redoubts are the only permanent works givingcasemate protection in the front line.
Some of the larger forts were simple quadrangular works with casemate barracks and caponier ditch defence.
The fort is long and narrow, with small casemate accommodation.
Chasseloup mask--a detached mask with tunnels for the casemate guns to fire through, the intention of which is to save them from being destroyed from a distance.
For those who objected to casemate fire, the bastioned trace was the way of salvation.
Again a moderate quantity of earth over a casemate increases the explosive effect of a shell by "tamping" it, that is by preventing the force of the explosion from being wasted in the open air.
It was soon realized, however, that the flanking defence of the body of the place ought not to be dependent on outworks, and that greater freedom was required for guns than was consistent with casemate defence.
The gorge has a very slight bastioned indentation, which allows for an efficient flanking of the ditch by a couple of machine guns placed in a single casemate on either side.
Even in the older days discussion had arisen freely on the relative merits of barbette and casemate mounting.
The latter gives a restricted view and greater safety to the layer, but unless the casemate takes the form of a revolving turret, the arc of fire is very limited.
The flue went up to the top of the arch, and then turned at right angles, and passed out of the casemate through a hole just over the window.
Well, you see, the sentry only passes us once to every twice he passes the casemate in the middle, and has his back to us twice as long at a time.
The luxurious appointments, the hospitable attentions of his host and hostesses, and the whole of his surroundings formed a strong contrast, indeed, both to his life when campaigning, and the five months he had spent in the casemate at Linz.
I do hope that we shall be as three good comrades together; and that, within this casemate at any rate, there will be no question whatever of rank, and that you will call me Drummond, as I shall call you both by your names.
Their casemate being the end one, they had but some ten or twelve yards to swim to the angle of the wall.
Two captains were lodged in the same casemate with Fergus.
During the daytime a line of sentinels enclosed a space in front of the prisoners’ quarters, within which they were permitted to exercise, and these sentinels at retreat were drawn in to the casemate entrances.
When the weather was such as absolutely to forbid out-of-door drill, the men were taught in the school of artillery, and practiced on the great guns in the casemate battery.
The casemate inclosed the wheel, which was placed in a recess at the stern of the vessel.
This slanting casemate extended across the hull, near the bow and stern, forming a quadrilateral gun-deck.
Sixty of these are narrow casemate vaults, of the class which M.
Returning into the antechamber, we find in its western wall a small door leading into a singlecasemate vault, which is much larger than any other of its kind in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem.
The interior is not remarkable; only there is a small cistern, well constructed, on the side of the casemate vault.
In the south wall of this are three finished casemate vaults, and the same number in the west, five of which have the channel, while the sixth belongs to the narrower class already mentioned.
In it are the beginnings of nine casemate vaults, and the instruments used have evidently been the chisel and the revolving cutter which I have already described[846].
In the inner wall were two doors, and a third at the entrance of the casemate itself.
Where the night-table and stove stood, the floor was bricked, and this paving extended to the wall that separated my casemate from the adjoining one, in which was no prisoner.
His two desperate dashes for freedom secured O’Brien a place in the most miserable subterranean casemate of Bitche.
Fort Fisher was a small unfinished work, consisting of a casemate battery fronting the ocean, and a line of works, nearly at right angles with this, that ran back inland.
The casemate used for a magazine adjoined mine, and in it were stored many thousand pounds of powder, and the lightning rods did not quiet all my fears when those violent thunderstorms passed over the island.
I left them late at the table and retired to my casemate room, and I avow to this day that some invisible spirit seemed to move my cot around the room.
About 2 hours after the fight began, one of these solid shots entered an embrasure and dismounted the casemate gun.
For some minutes Pulaski was silent; then, four casemate guns were fired in rapid succession.
Nearly all of the barbette guns and mortars bearing upon Tybee had been dismounted and only two of the five casemate guns were in order.
But dawn was shining in through the loopholes of the casemateere I unclosed my eyes to the world again, and the drums and fifes were playing, the sun above the horizon.
The casemate guns rusted so that they could not be traversed; salt water dashed freely through the open embrasures, the shutters of which were no longer in working order.
Each casemate contained one gun, which could be moved on a track for crossfiring through the embrasure.
The fort magazines were at either extremity of the Gorge in both casemate tiers.
There are now two guns mounted on the casemate carriages in the left flank.
The casemate was 60 feet long, constructed of massive timbers, covered with 4-inch planking, over which were placed two layers of 2-inch iron.
Her armament consisted of an Armstrong 100-pounder in the bow and another in the stern, the casemate being so pierced that the guns could be used at broadside or quarter.
The latter are then transported to the position and, the casemate is established, hiding the work with the greatest care from enemy observation.
It is essential that the principal parts of the machine gun casematebe prepared in the rear.
They are numbered by the non-commissioned officer in charge of the boat, who establishes communication with the casemate, using the boat telephone, and working under the instructions of the casemate electrician.
Apparatus and Operation of Casemate Switchboard and Care and Use of Telephone.
Connect one wire of the casemate 'phone to either side of the battery, and the other to the ground (waterpipe is a good ground).
In the seven-cored cable there are no marked cores, the cores being numbered under the instructions of the casemate electrician.
These hapless wights are confined in a big casemate of the fort.
It was erected at the end of the casemate opposite the door and below the venthole through which daylight penetrates.
In the casemate are five camp beds and five rush-bottomed chairs; to this lugubrious furniture of the dungeon an altar has been added.
In a casemate of this fort Mr. Davis was confined.
The Orphan and his guns' crews on the wind'ard side would feel the ship quiver as a wave thudded against the casemate below them, and then had just time to duck their heads before millions of icy particles of spray soused viciously over them.
They were; and they'll never forget the "feel" of the ammunition boots of the tender-hearted marines who shepherded them that night into a casemate and locked them up inside.
Outside X2 casemate the China Doll leant against the thin armour, with his sponge and soap in his hand and a towel round him.
It is an enclosed work of granite, with two tiers of casemate guns and provisions for a third tier in barbette, though the guns of the latter battery never have been mounted.
Captain Bordman, with "A" Battery, was directed to take station at Nahant, for the protection of the mining casemate at that point.
They landed at three o'clock and joined headquarters at the Casemate Barracks, number six company proceeding to Catalan Bay on detachment.
