The really heavy guns had to be carried lower in the ship than the upper deck, and these took the form of large brass or bronze muzzle-loaders on wheeled carriages, carried on the lower deck.
Obona bunzima bemilo babuphathwa ngaphantsi kwenqanawa nangaphezulu, kwaye zaye zathatha ubude bexina okanye ubhedu nomlomo wesilwanyana kwivili eliphethweyo, nokuphathwa komgangatho ongaphantsi.