Cannons at Georgetown U., with story, do you believe it?

[cannonmn]

http://ajcudigital.org/cdm-alias/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/gtown&CISOPTR=28&REC=1

[Double D]

Wow, John, where are those guns now?  WWII scrap drive?

[cannonmn]

Guns are still there as far as I know. 

Here is supposedly another cannon from one of the same two ships.  It is maybe 10 miles from the other two.  They call it a demiculverin and give some specs for a typical demiculverin, but somehow the gun on the monument doesn't look that large.  I don't see any measurements of the one on the monument.

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=187

You don't s'pose people wanted a monument to the early Maryland settlers, found an old cannon lying around somewhere, and said "Well this must be one of the cannons from the Ark or the Dove, since the cannon is in Maryland, and the Ark and the Dove came to Maryland."

I get curious when big stories are attributed to cannons with no way to verify the stories.

[dan610324]

how likely is it that the ships had cast iron guns as early as that ??

[cannonmn]

I have a lot of questions about the G'town cannons.

They are supposed to be Spanish.  How do we know that?

They are said to have come originally from the Spanish Armada, which as every school kid knows was destroyed in 1588.   I've never heard that the Spanish Armada carried any cast iron guns-bronze yes, wrought iron, yes, but cast iron???