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Description: | Scale: circa 1:12. Model of a proposed breech-loading (vertical breech stopper) cannon (circa 1850), with carriage. The cannon barrel has been cast from iron and painted black overall and is mounted by its trunions on a wooden four-wheeled carriage which is held together by five pairs of large bolts with nuts at either end. The carriage is stained and varnished and inscribed with "25/17"1 and stamped with "MA 6357", and " ON LOAN MARITIME MUSEUM 14.9.71" typed on a paper label on the underside. On the left-hand side of the carriage is a large vertical lever which operates the vertical breech stopper loading mechanism, the movement of which is counter-balanced by a large cube of lead between the carriage frame beneath the gun.
CA: AAB.
caption: Breach loading cannon - breach closed
caption: Breach loading cannon - breach open
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Palmer Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum models (representations) C H (inventor) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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