British Ships Get Bomb Shelters (Mar, 1940)
Wouldn’t the overpressure pulp the guy anyway?
History of the RMS Scythia may be found here
British Ships Get Bomb Shelters
To protect a sailor or officer on watch on the open bridge of the British liner Scythia, steamship officials have installed steel pill boxes like that seen in the photograph at the left. Entering by a flush steel door, the watch peers out through slots cut in the steel wall just below the pancake top of the protective chamber.
At first I thought that had to be a joke, because:
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But they’re not exactly the same shape. I don’t think they’d do much for a blast, no, but shrapnel and flame could be deflected, at least…
I bet a sailor or two painted “Royal Mail” on these things.
“Wouldn’t the overpressure pulp the guy anyway?”
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