- Look up
turret in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Turret may
refer to:
Turret (architecture), a
small tower that
projects above the wall of a building...
- A gun
turret (or
simply turret) is a
mounting platform from
which weapons can be
fired that
affords protection,
visibility and
ability to turn and aim...
- 19
April 1989, an
explosion occurred within the
Number Two 16-inch gun
turret of the
United States Navy
battleship USS Iowa (BB-61)
during a
fleet exercise...
-
arose from the
turret's spherical housing. It was a
manned turret, as
distinct from remote-controlled
turrets also in use. The
turret held the gunner...
- The
Meeting on the
Turret Stairs (or ****elil and Hildebrand, the
Meeting on the
Turret Stairs) is a
watercolour painting from 1864 by
Frederic William...
- An
oscillating turret is a form of
turret for
armoured fighting vehicles, both
tanks and
armoured cars. The
turret is
unusual in
being made of two hinged...
-
Turret ships were a 19th-century type of warship, the
earliest to have
their guns
mounted in a
revolving gun
turret,
instead of a
broadside arrangement...
- the Ball
Turret Gunner" is a five-line poem by
Randall Jarrell published in 1945. The poem is
about the
death of a
gunner in a
Sperry ball
turret on a World...
- The
Turret (60°40′S 45°9′W / 60.667°S 45.150°W / -60.667; -45.150) is a con****uous
rocky headland, 460 m high, at the
south side of the
entrance to...
- In architecture, a
turret is a
small circular tower,
usually notably smaller than the main structure, that
projects outwards from a wall or
corner of that...