In practice, these guns were generally quite useless; usually mounted close to the water, casemate guns were often awash in spray, and were sometimes swamped completely by the ship's rolling.
U praksi su ovi topovi općenito bili prilično beskorisni; obično montirani blizu vode, kazamatni topovi bili su često preplavljeni mlazom vode, a ponekad potpuno potopljeni valjanjem broda.