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The wheelhouse enclosed the paddle wheel. Wheelhouses were not armor-plated and were vulnerable to cannon fire from batteries atop forts and long high riverbanks. Water ran off the paddle wheel and into the latrine to supply a showerhead and flush the commode.
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