Author Topic: Does your cannone have a name? (Read 1070 times)

GUNNUT in Iowa · « **on:** February 22, 2012, 01:30:36 AM »

I am in the process of building a one-half scale 6 pound field cannon (golf ball bore). I am thinking about giving it a name. Did you give your cannon a name? What is it?

Artilleryman · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2012, 03:22:37 AM »

No nicknames here, I refer to my artillery pieces by model designation.

Cat Whisperer · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2012, 04:48:18 AM »

I named my 4.5" mortar after a former boss - the meanest "5 letter" woman I've ever met.

The Hayman · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2012, 06:47:55 AM »

I have not named my cannon as of yet, but am working on it (she is new here and I barely know her). I was sailor before I was a farmer, and I did read all those historical novels about the British Navy during the age of sail, and I do believe it was a tradition for the gun crews to name their cannon. My favorite name of a naval cannon (from the novels) was "Dead Reckoner".

IvarForkbeard · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2012, 06:55:02 AM »

Oh I can tell you weren't a cannon cocker or ordie, otherwise you would NEVER call a gun a "Naval Cannon" As soon as it hits it deck of a ship, it's a gun.
Mine are called "The Old Man" for my 30MM, "Driver" for my GB Cohorn, "9 Iron" for my BG carronade, "Putter" for my Cheroot, "Cutie" for my recently made micro GB Cohorn.

Quote from: The Hayman on February 22, 2012, 06:47:55 AM

I have not named my cannon as of yet, but am working on it (she is new here and I barely know her). I was sailor before I was a farmer, and I did read all those historical novels about the British Navy during the age of sail, and I do believe it was a tradition for the gun crews to name their cannon. My favorite name of a naval cannon (from the novels) was "Dead Reckoner".

KABAR2 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2012, 07:09:02 AM »

My little bronze gun on truck carraige is named "Reaper"
my golf ball mortar is named "Mort"............ have yet to name other cannon....
Oh & My 1911 is named "Rosco"

cannonmn · « **Reply #6 on:** February 22, 2012, 12:14:26 PM »

Many of my French and Spanish cannons have names that were assigned to them long ago. But it is probably more appropriate to refer to a well-known public collection wherein you will find 13 re-usable cannon names. This is a brief posting I did a few years back on the CMH forum on that subject:
http://gs19.inmotionhosting.com/~milita8/cmh/member/member.cgi/read/3691

Double D · « **Reply #7 on:** February 22, 2012, 02:57:35 PM »

John,

That is a great post, why don't you copy and paste that here...it would be much more useful for our purposes when we search the board. It would also show up in a Goggle search, it doesn't now.

GUNNUT in Iowa · « **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2012, 03:52:53 PM »

Thanks for the input.

Here is a teaser photo.

http://s829.photobucket.com/albums/zz215/6270_Productions/Abigail/?action=view&current=67.jpg

GGaskill · « **Reply #9 on:** February 22, 2012, 04:28:23 PM »

Interesting background.

cannonmn · « **Reply #10 on:** February 22, 2012, 04:29:00 PM »

Quote

That is a great post, why don't you copy and paste that here...it would be much
more useful for our purposes when we search the board. It would also show up in
a Goggle search, it doesn't now.

DD, glad you brought up the GB search engine. Any time I tried to find something using "search" here, the search feature was less than worthless, just time-wasting and frustrating. I gave up trying to find anything here a couple of years ago. Are you indicating it has been improved? If so I'd be glad to give it another chance.

Double D · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2012, 05:09:44 PM »

Yes it has been improved but it is not great. CMH Search engine is not much better.

Better yet GBO pops when you google it. CMH does not. For example.

Here is a Google search of your 2007 CMH post: How were French and Spanish cannons named
http://www.google.com/search?q=How+were+French+and+Spanish+cannons+named&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Nothing

Here is a CMH search of "How were French and Spanish cannons named"

http://gs19.inmotionhosting.com/~milita8/cmh/member/member.cgi/index

Here is a google search of EL ALANO
http://www.google.com/search?q=EL+ALANO&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Nothing

Here is a CMH search for El Alano

http://gs19.inmotionhosting.com/~milita8/cmh/member/member.cgi/index

Here is a google search for this post: Does your cannone have a name.

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Here is a Goggle query of Long Cecil.

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You have go to page two for the GBO post.

The software used by CMH is old school and does not contain metatags and search engine crawler can not find the data in the site. CMH is in serious need of updating and it is a shame it is not done. That site has some incredible information on it and virtually impossible to find, that is why I say copy and paste the info over here so it can be found.

buzz36 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2012, 05:25:40 PM »

no sir i wont coz i happy way she is
but i can tell you a lot of ball fired out the end had one of my X wives names on it

RocklockI · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2012, 06:47:35 PM »

Oh yea ,they have names ....lots of them ! It all depends on how they are behaving .

Sometimes like in Montana last years she is "oh yea sweet baby" and sometimes if she balking for some darn reason she is called something very differant !

seacoastartillery · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2012, 08:05:25 PM »

Mike and I have only named one of the cannon we have built. After all the trouble we had building our firing replica of the French Paixhans Monster Mortar of 1832 in 2/5 Scale, we decided to call it La Bete (The Beast) from the 1946 movie, La Belle et La Bete (The Beauty and the Beast). I remember one comment from our Springtime build in 2009. It was our sincerest wish to have La Bete and all it's beastly parts out of our small shop designed to make miniatures and up to 1/5 scale seacoast artillery!!

Tracy

La Bete just two days before field testing, needing only a final coat of paint.

oltom · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2012, 12:59:05 AM »

yup.....my 2/3 scale is called "Paris"............cause it makes alotta noise, and is hard to clean up~

exlimey · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2012, 02:24:14 AM »

We once had problems firing a Gilpin Howitzer at Saratoga National Historic Park back in the 60s so we briefly named it "Congress" because it would,nt work and we could,nt fire it!

JeffG · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2012, 06:59:39 AM »

TheHMR Howitzer is "Little Blue", (French blue split trail carriage) the Dom GB Dahlgren is "The John J." The SBR coehorn nerver got a nickname.

The Jeff · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2012, 10:42:53 AM »

None of mine have names. Like Artilleryman I refer to them by their model and the scale I built them in.

DD, one way to increase your search effectiveness is to add site:gboreloaded.com in the search box along with your search query. That will limit your search to just the go2gbo domain. Using "El Alano site:gs19.inmotionhosting.com" returned 4 results with the last being what you were looking for.

Double D · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2012, 03:05:34 PM »

Quote from: The Jeff on February 23, 2012, 10:42:53 AM

None of mine have names. Like Artilleryman I refer to them by their model and the scale I built them in.

DD, one way to increase your search effectiveness is to add site:gboreloaded.com in the search box along with your search query. That will limit your search to just the go2gbo domain. Using "El Alano site:gs19.inmotionhosting.com" returned 4 results with the last being what you were looking for.

That is correct if all you want to do is search jusr GBO