A magazine is an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored. The word is taken originally from the Arabic word makhāzin (مخازن), meaning "storehouses", via Italian and Middle French.
16-533: Millburn may refer to: Places [ edit ] United Kingdom [ edit ] Millburn, Inverness , an area of Inverness, Scotland Millburn, County Londonderry , a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland United States [ edit ] Millburn, Illinois , an unincorporated community in Illinois, United States Millburn, New Jersey ,
32-533: A large crowd in Millburn. A survey of Millburn was made by the War Office in 1877, alongside areas of Yorkshire and Hampshire . Magazine (artillery) The term is also used for an ammunition dump , a place where large quantities of ammunition are stored for later distribution. This usage is less common. In the early history of tube artillery drawn by horses (and later by mechanized vehicles), ammunition
48-615: A mixture of various types of missiles: surface-to-air missiles , antisubmarine missiles such as the ASROC missile , and anti-ship missiles such as the Harpoon missile . See especially the Oliver Hazard Perry -class frigates , owned by several different navies around the world, in which one 40-missile magazine carries a mixture of all three types of missiles: surface-to-air, surface-to-surface, and surface-to-underwater. In aircraft carriers ,
64-433: A pit, or natural declivity, or surrounded by sandbags or earthworks . Circumstances might require the establishment of multiple field magazines so that one lucky hit or accident would not disable the entire battery. The ammunition storage area aboard a warship is referred to as a magazine or the "ship's magazine" by sailors. Historically, when artillery was fired with gunpowder , a warship's magazines were built below
80-852: A township in New Jersey, United States Other [ edit ] Millburn Academy , secondary school in Inverness Millburn distillery , distillery in Inverness Millburn High School , public high school in Millburn, New Jersey Millburn Magic , women's soccer team in New Jersey Millburn Park , Vale of Leven F.C. football ground Millburn (NJT station) , New Jersey Transit station in Millburn, New Jersey Millburn Township Public Schools , school district in Millburn, New Jersey See also [ edit ] Milburn (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
96-509: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Millburn, Inverness Millburn ( Scottish Gaelic : Allt A'Mhuilinn , meaning "The Mill Stream") is an area of the city of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland . The neighbourhood is situated just east of the city centre, beside the Mill Burn for which it's named. The area
112-474: Is served by several primary schools in its surrounding area, with high school students attending the neighbourhood's own Millburn Academy . Millburn Road, running parallel to the academy, is one of the main access roads into the centre of Inverness from the A9. The area is also famous for Millburn distillery , which produced Scotch whisky before its closure in 1985. Though most of its buildings were demolished, part of
128-449: The Harpoon missile and the Exocet missile . Naval magazines face considerable risk of detonation , especially in cases of attack, accident, or fire. Such detonations have sunk many warships and caused many other incidents. Battleships were highly armored to protect from external attack, but the strength of the construction aids to constrict and worsen the impact of internal explosions, as
144-425: The advent of missile-equipped warships , the term missile "magazine" has also been applied to the storage area for guided missiles on the ship, usually carried below the main decks of the warships. For ships with both forward and aft surface-to-air missile launchers, there are at least two missile magazines. Sometimes the magazines of guided-missile frigates and guided-missile destroyers have carried or do carry
160-479: The compartment with seawater in an emergency. The separation of shell and propellant gave the storage of the former the name "shell room" and the latter "powder room". Surface warships that have carried torpedoes , and ones that still do (such as the Mark 46 torpedo for antisubmarine warfare ), have had torpedo magazines for carrying these dangerous antiship and antisubmarine weapons in well-defended compartments. With
176-435: The distillery remains as a restaurant with a purpose-built Premier Inn alongside. According to one local memoir, an explosion occurred in 1781 at the city's powder magazine on Church Street. Debris from the building landed in Millburn, and the sea nearby. In September 1834, Henry Brougham , Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain made an official visit to Inverness. His carriage met the city's Provost , magistrates, and
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#1732844535679192-505: The magazines are required to store not only the aircraft carrier's own defensive weapons, but all of the weapons for her warplanes , including rapid-fire gun ammunition, air-to-air missiles such as the Sidewinder missile , air-to-surface missiles such as the Maverick missile , Mk 46 ASW torpedoes , Joint Direct Attack Munitions , "dumb bombs", HARM missiles , and anti-ship missiles such as
208-498: The rigid steel does not allow blast waves to dissipate. The USS Iowa turret explosion was such an example: in 1989 a loading incident caused a gun turret explosion, which spread to further powder stores in the turret, which eventually killed all 47 men in the turret. The turret served to contain the blast, protecting the rest of the ship, but amplified the blast inside the turret ensuring deadly conditions. During World War II, many ships met their end via magazine detonations. During
224-451: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Millburn . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Millburn&oldid=775085013 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
240-430: The water line—especially since the magazines could then be readily flooded in case of fire or other dangerous emergencies on board the ship. An open flame was never allowed inside the magazine. More modern warships use semi-automated or automated ammunition hoists . The path through which the naval artillery 's ammunition passed typically has blast-resistant airlocks and other safety devices, including provisions to flood
256-399: Was carried in separate unarmored wagons or vehicles. These soft-skinned vehicles were extremely vulnerable to enemy fire and to explosions caused by a weapons malfunction. Therefore, as part of setting up an artillery battery , a designated place would be used to shelter the ready ammunition. In the case of batteries of towed artillery the temporary magazine would be placed, if possible, in
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