gunnery officer
{{Short description|Officer responsible for maintaining a warship's guns}}
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The gunnery officer of a warship was the officer responsible for operation and maintenance of the ship's guns and for safe storage of the ship's ammunition inventory.
Background
The gunnery officer was usually the line officer next in rank to the executive officer.{{cite book |last=Mayo |first=Claude Banks |title =Your Navy |publisher =Parker & Baird Company |date =1939 |location =Los Angeles |pages =291–292 }} As shipboard guided missiles and torpedoes became more effective than naval artillery, guns were included within a weapons department replacing the older gunnery department. The weapons department is supervised by a weapons officer who may have a subordinate gunnery officer supervising the ship's guns.
See also
References
- The Gunnery Officer. Prepared by Bureau of Naval Personnel. December 1955. Navpapers 10867. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VQPJGPLQ37sC&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google].
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