King George's Cannon

[Spuddy]

Here is a link to an interesting article about cannon restoration in Maine.
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/hallowellcannon-to-restored-moved-to-original-location_2010-04-25.html

[Zulu]

16 spoke wheels.
Its still nice to see someone taking an interest in saving a nice barrel from the rust pile.
Zulu

[Cannoneer]

Thanks, Spuddy, that's an interesting article. With the history of the gun being known, I'm kind of surprised they didn't decide to mount the gun on a naval carriage.

[RocklockI]

Deanna ,my wife will tell all the ladies at the DAR about this cannon . good info .

[KABAR2]

16 spoke wheels.
Its still nice to see someone taking an interest in saving a nice barrel from the rust pile.
Zulu

They seem to have had parts of it's old carraige which were rebuilt, the wheels not only have 16 spokes
but also iron hubs so they are probably something taken from a 1880's or 90's freight wagon and
used years back to build a carraige. I guess they don't know the difference between "Forged" and cast......

As to the history of the Boxer and what happened to it's cannon this seems to point to them going to
a Yankee Privateer no mention of Beeman.......
http://imaginemaine.com/Seafight.html