"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:35:03 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

Wooden warships had to be careful also. It was interesting taking the
tour
of the USS Constitution in Boston. When they went to battle stations, one
of the crew's jobs was to man the manually operated bilge pumps and pump
water up to cover the two gun decks to prevent them from catching fire due
to spilled pow

Constitution has one gun deck, like all frigates.

Casady



Picky, picky.

Yes, there was one *gun* deck, that had 30 cannons (15 per side). But the
main deck (or "spar deck") also had 22 larger cannons.

Both decks were flooded during battle by pumping the bilge water onto them
to prevent fires.

Eisboch