The bridge and forward gun platform were barely raised above the bow, resulting in a wet conning position.

The fin, which helps support the masts, serves as a kind of keel and provides a raised conning position.

It could "be regarded as the first adequately installed conning position installed in a British" ironclad.

He climbed the ladder to the conning position atop the galley's aftercastle, moving slowly but steadily with his stiff knee.

A communications tube with three-inch sides ran from the conning tower down to the lower conning position on the main deck.

Communications from the aft conning position were also destroyed, the ship had to be steered via a chain of messengers for the rest of the battle.

Previous British designs that had a low "turtle-back" forecastle, which, although intended to clear the bows, caused them to dig in to the sea, resulting in a very wet conning position.

Must be my age, Vice-Admiral Lincoln Jessup, Jr, thought to himself as he paced his small admiral's deck above the main conning position on Carl Vinsons's island.

All vessels had a distinctive "turtleback" forecastle that was intended to clear water from the bow, but actually tended to dig the bow into anything of a sea, resulting in a very wet conning position.

The spotting top on the main mast was deleted and an armoured spotting tower was built instead into the conning tower where it was better protected, had an improved field of vision and direct access to the primary conning position.