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Offline Soot

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Dictator Sled Long Gun?
« on: December 26, 2009, 01:52:56 PM »
What is it? Click on pics for full size.
Hint 1: Cannonmn has probably tripped over it if he wasn't watching where he was walking.
Hint 2: I embedded all the details in the jpeg.  It's in the IPTC info if you know how to extract it.




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Re: Dictator Sled Long Gun?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2009, 07:04:22 PM »
     Looks like the 12" Stockton Navy Gun to me made by the Mersey Foundry in England.  Mike and I saw one just like that at the Washington Navy yard in 2002 and it was mounted on the 13" Seacoast Mortar Bed, modified like the one in your pic.

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Re: Dictator Sled Long Gun?
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2009, 07:09:39 PM »
Bingo, interesting story about this gun here.
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Re: Dictator Sled Long Gun?
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2009, 07:21:54 PM »
It is interesting that they attribute the original design of the Phoenix gun to Reeves, who was the company president, instead of Griffen, who actually developed the manufactruring process.
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Re: Dictator Sled Long Gun?
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2009, 02:41:07 AM »
The way I understand it is that Reeves corrected the problems with the Griffin manufacturing process.  The early guns were Griffins and the later were Reeves.  Reeves was not the original designer.  I heard the same with Armstrong, that most of his credit was from Blakely's work.  Is this true?
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