Original sentence: " A wartime account describes HMS Euryalus firing her 5.25 in guns: "We left Suez and headed for the Gulf, where at 1PM the ship's company closed to action-stations and gave a demonstration of the cruiser's fire power to the army officers
Edited sentence: " A wartime account describes HMS Euryalus  firing her 5.25 in guns: "We left Suez and headed for the Gulf, where at 1PM the ship's company closed to action-stations and gave a demonstration of the cruiser's fire power to the army officers