Gunroom

The aft gunroom on the Vasa
Not to be confused with Gun deck.

A gunroom is the junior officers' mess on a naval vessel. It was occupied by the officers below the rank of lieutenant. In wooden sailing ships it was on a lower deck, and was originally the quarters of the gunner,[1] but in its form as a mess, guns were not normally found in it. The senior officers' equivalent is the wardroom.

In large ships of war, the gunroom was a compartment originally occupied by the gunner and his mates, but now fitted up for the accommodation of the junior officers; in smaller vessels, that used as a mess-room by the lieutenants.[2]

In an English country house, the gunroom is a secure walk-in vault in which sporting rifles, shotguns, ammunition and other shooting accessories are kept. They are locked away partly for security, partly as some makes such as Holland & Holland or Purdey are highly valuable (costing as much as £60,000 for shotguns and £100,000 for rifles and with a 2- to 3-year waiting list from order to delivery).[3]

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References

  1. ^ Wikisource One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gun-room". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 729.
  2. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, "gunroom"
  3. ^ "Holland and Holland: History". Archived from the original on 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2010-09-17.

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