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A detailed study of all known cannon and anchors on and in the waters surrounding the Caribbean island St. Eustatius.
ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2016
Bang Bang! Cannons, Carronades, and the Gun Carriage from the Storm Wreck2016 •
Meide, Chuck 2016 Bang Bang! Cannons, Carronades, and the Gun Carriage from the Storm Wreck. In ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2016, Paul F. Johnson, ed., pp. 142-152. Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology, Washington, D.C. --- ABSTRACT: In December 2010, four cannons and two carronades were discovered on the Storm Wreck, apparently jettisoned in an attempt to re-float the grounded ship. One 4-pounder cannon and one 9-pounder carronade were raised in 2011 and have been conserved. The carronade, whose serial number was identified in Carron Company records, was dated 1780 and is believed to be the second-oldest surviving example. In 2015, excavations revealed another cannon, 12 meters away from the main cannon pile. It was still attached to the partially preserved remains of its carriage. This paper presents an overview of these seven guns and the carriage.
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
A bronze cannon from La Belle , 1686: its construction, conservation and display1997 •
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After the close of the first excavation season, a number of cannon were discovered in December 2010 during a routine monitoring dive on the site of the late 18th century Storm Wreck off the coast of St. Augustine in St. Johns County, Florida. LAMP’s 2011 excavation season focused on this newly exposed area, resulting in the identification of six cannon which appear to represent three distinct gun types, including both carronade-style ordnance and traditional long guns. The guns were recorded and two representative pieces raised for detailed study, conservation, and eventual display. This artillery is useful as a dating tool for the site and can possibly yield clues as to the nationality of the shipwreck. This paper addresses the latest analysis of this artillery.
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“Ordnance is the most accurate and acceptable generic term which embraces all those weapons of war which use an explosive charge to propel a missile in the direction of the enemy, and which are larger than those which can be used as personal arms” (Hughes 1969: 1). The technical development and unreserved application of cannon (a term which in its modern sense encompasses all of the types mentioned below) played a key role in European expansion and colonial hegemony (cf. Cipolla 1965). Ordnance remains, therefore, are of great interest to archaeologists studying this process, or that of technological change in general. In addition, ordnance—and especially bronze as opposed to iron pieces—usually proves the most diagnostic artifacts found on a shipwreck or military site. This study is an overview of the history of the development, design, and manufacture of bronze muzzle-loading ordnance, which were widely used by the world’s military forces from the 16th to mid-19th centuries. Discussion is limited for the most part to guns (what are usually termed cannon), but also to mortars, howitzers, and to a lesser degree types such as the carronade and swivel gun.
Authors: Galili E. and Rosen B.
A 15th-Century Wreck of an Ordnance-Carrying Ship from Atlit North Bay, IsraelIn 1977, a shipwreck assemblage was discovered off Atlit, Israel. Finds included three iron anchors, a large bombard, four swivel guns, stone and lead shot, and bronze helmets. The bronze bombard (2210 kg, 3.247 m long) contained a wooden wad and remnants of what may have been gunpowder. The swivel guns (each 185 kg) were bronze, with swivels and the tillers of iron. Twenty (or 21) bronze helmets were recovered. The findings provide rare evidence for the mounting of heavy ordnance on the bow of a galley or ship in the 15th century. Key words: Carmel coast, iron anchors, shipwreck, Ottoman, Mamluk, bombard.
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In 2008, Odyssey Marine Exploration discovered an unknown wreck at a depth of around 80m in the western English Channel (Site 33c). A pre-disturbance survey was conducted, including the recording of surface features and the production of a photomosaic. The presence of a blue glass flacon bottle and fleur de lis decoration along an iron swivel gun recovered from the site suggested a possible French nationality for the vessel. The discovery of the ship’s bronze bell, inscribed with the name La Marquise de Tourny and the date of 1744, confirmed that Site 33c represented a ship that had once been a Bordeaux-based privateer. La Marquise de Tourny may have been sailing short-haul between Bordeaux and the French Channel ports when she was lost during a storm in the late 1740s or early 1750s. No cargo is evident on the site and the abundance of iron ballast may reflect the original presence of an organic consignment such as coffee or sugar, which no longer survives. Other than the dense con...
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The Cadiz-Delta II wreck: the “San Giorgio”, a Genoese merchantman sunk by Francis Drake in 1587OME Papers 24, Tampa, Florida
Sean Kingsley, Neil Cunningham Dobson and Frederick Van de Walle, Balchin’s Victory (Site 25C): Shipwreck Monitoring & Cannon Impacts, 2008-20122012 •
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
A Roman Iron Anchor from the Port of Genoa, Italy2016 •
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
Archaeology of a 17th-century Naval Battle: the first two seasons of the Rockley Bay Research Project in Tobago2016 •
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
A late 16th- to early 17th-century European shipwreck carrying Venetian ordnance discovered off the Carmel coast, Israel2016 •
Journal of the Ordnance Society
The recent discovery of three shipwrecks with bronze ordnance – Sveti pavao, Brsečine and Vis Harbour (croatia)2018 •
Journal of the Ordnance Society
The recent discovery of three shipwrecks with bronze ordnance – Svet Pavao, Brsečine and Vis Harbour (Croatia)2018 •
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
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International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
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International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
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Journal of the Ordnance Society, vol. 28
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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
A late medieval or early modern light gun barrel from the Castle Museum in Malbork—typology, technology of manufacture and identification of the smelting process2020 •
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