Hi All,
I am a new member and thanks to Kabar2 for inviting me across.
Well a little about myself, Love of all things that go bang more so with Black powder although bigger the better.
I head up the restoration work at Fort Amherst in Chatham Kent England, It is really a full time job but we are all volunteers at the Fort with a love of the place. It was built to protect the Royal Dockyard at Chatham.
We currently have around 130no cannon ranging from 3pdrs, 6pdrs both heavy and light, 9pdrs, 18pdrs, 24pdrs, 32pdrs and a 64pdr, we also have a number of mortars from memory about 5no but I might be wrong on that. The age range of these cannon dates from Elizbethan through to the 1800's .
We have a number of shells and cannon balls of which the earliest is Roman and made of stone.
As I am new to this forum I am not sure if this is posted in the correct part but bare with me. I hope to learn some more from you fellows the other side of the pond as at the end of the day we are all learning most of the time.
Will hope to post some stuff up soon.
Rivercat