Six inchers. four inchers. multiple pompons, even Lewis guns plastered a wide area extending from sea level to the sky. Each battleship seemed to be aflame from end to end like a giant set piece in a gargantuan firework play. The entire ship shuddered as shells whistled away into the distance,—Shouted orders were drowned by the indescribable violence of the barrage Meanwhile the sea, illuminated by the blaze of guns. became periodically a mass of small and large waterspouts as splinters from the destroyers' protective barrage fell around us.
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