>I was unable to find the video of "How to pick-up and load a cannon in a VW bug".....
Hey, don't laugh, when I first started collecting cannons in the 1970's that's exactly what I was driving, it was a VW superbeetle. I picked up two sizeable cannons in it, both gunades. Ted Fitler and i did some struggling to get a 4-foot, 400?-odd pound gunade into the right front of the vehicle, where I had removed the passenger's seat to make room. That particular gunade, which I still have, came via trade from Fort Pulaski, GA. with NPS paperwork. It had been found on Hutchinson's Island, SC., in the 1930's. It is marked P 2 pr., and B&P, for Bailey and Pegg, a major London founder of iron guns.
The other gunade I got on Cape Cod, MA. from a gun dealer, who helped me load it into the same VW. He had gotten it from a Army helicopter pilot who spotted it lying on a beach in Vietnam, then landed alongside it and "collected" it. I still have that one, too.
I later found the very interesting National Geographic article from the 1930's or 40's with a title something like "Pirate fighters of the South China Sea." There are some great pictures in that article showing local junks armed with gunades and Mauser broomhandle pistols to defend themselves against the local pirates. The article also depicted the gunner's tools and ammo. One round I remember was a sock filled with some kind of langridge or grapeshot. The boat captain was ready to sock-it-to those nasty ole' pirates, that's for sure.
