Protecting an early battleship autoloader from shock

Would shock from near misses disable a 1910s battleship autoloader?

Shockproofing was a major design problem, although one argument for mechanisation was that machinery might be easier to protect than its human operators.

Near misses would expose a highly mechanised loading system to shock even without a direct hit. Protecting the mechanisms was a major engineering problem for early autoloading proposals. The discussion also mentions a theory that machinery could be made more resistant to shock than its human operators. That was an argument for mechanisation, with the system's actual resistance still needing to be established.