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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
If you want to get really technical about it, no submarine has ever had a deck gun. By the time the first true submarine craft were introduced (rather than submersible torpedo-boats) the practicality of the deck gun had long since vanished.
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orly?
Anyways I guess I'm only changing the line in my paper slightly
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The British D class submarines became the first be equipped with a wireless telegraph, and one of the first submarines to have a deck gun and diesel propulsion (Cocker 27).
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The British D class submarines became the first be equipped with a wireless telegraph, and the first submarine class to have both a deck gun and diesel propulsion (Cocker 27).
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If I get in to every little detail this paper is going to be twice as huge than it already is. I'm not going to get in to that Turkish boat since I'm focusing on the 20th century only.