Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA

[Cannoneer]

It was the photo of the two beauties seen in the second article on this page that first caught my attention; and then I found it interesting that they were both purchased from Cuba in 1936. Both cannon are rifled, and both have been drilled through the cascabels ( I assume for attachment to a leveling screw). The description (on the record page) of the gun cast in 1721 isn't all that clear: The drawing gives the bore diameter as 6½'', but the text states it's 6¼'', and there is also some confusion with length and weight; maybe they're mixing the two guns up. If the rifled bore is around 6½ inches, would it be probable that the gun was originally a 24-27 pounder?
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/get-involved/2010-bronze-door-proposals

http://collections.marinersmuseum.org/default.asp?IDCFile=DETAILS.IDC,SPECIFIC=30520,NEXTRECORDS=31,PREVRECORDS=11,DATABASE=80137252,LISTIDC=PAGE.IDC,RECORDMAX=10,RECNO=25,WORDS=bronze+OR+spanish+OR+cannon








There are other interesting cannon to view in their collection, unfortunately they're not up to speed in providing photos of all the items that they possess.

http://collections.marinersmuseum.org/default.asp?IDCFile=PAGE.IDC

A couple Spanish 4 pounders



British swivel gun


French bronze swivel gun with an interesting leveling mechanism, 1826

[KABAR2]

Nice find on the collections link, I wish they had everything in the collection photographed there is a lot there......
the Spanish cannon was probably rifled in the mid 1800's the Spanish seemed to like to keep their cannon in service much longer than any other nation.... I would think their economy had alot to do with this practice.......

[The Jeff]

I made a thread a few years ago when I last visited the Mariner's Museum which has a few pictures of various cannons and ordnance: http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php?topic=209904.0


Here's a picture of the bore of the rifled bronze piece on the red carriage.