Smoothbores Sentence Examples

Of seventy-five hits on the hulls of the ships only five can with certainty be ascribed to projectiles from rifled guns, and thirty were unquestionably due to the old smoothbores, which were not provided with sights.

About 8 rifled guns and 19 smoothbores were dismounted or disabled and 4 and 1 temporarily put out of action respectively.

As many as twenty-eight rifled guns and 140 smoothbores would havg opened fire on the following day.