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- From: emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Identify this Cannon?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.163809.8512@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 00:17:33 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <2sfrh4n@lynx.unm.edu> boardman%cancer.unm.edu@lynx.unm.edu (Bob Boardman) writes:
- #
- # Given the mounting with it's seven discrete elevations and the strange
- # chamber/removable barrel/sleeve arrangement, I'm guessing that this might be
- # a naval "line-firing" gun - one of the guns that would be carried out onto
- # the deck, when necessary, for firing a line over to another ship.
- # Any help in identifying this little bronze beauty would be gratefully
- # appreciated. If anyone has any pointers towards good books about historical
- # naval weaponry, that would also be appreciated. If I can't figure out what
- # this is and how to fire* it, I may have to put it on the Suburban as a hood
- # ornament ;-}.
-
- My *guess* is that this is a neo-Victorian salute cannon that was designed
- to grace some wealthy person's garden in the 1890s. From the description
- of it's barrel design, I'd say it was intended to fire nothing more potent
- than newspaper wads with a noisemaker BP charge. I wouldn't come near this
- thing with propellants until it was examined throughly by an expert.
-
- Gary
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