A carronade is a short smoothbore cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy. It was first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk...

USS Carronade (IFS-1/LFR-1) was a ship of the United States Navy first commissioned in 1955. She was named after the carronade, a type of short barreled...

fashions changed. Some types include: Demi-cannon Culverin Demi-culverin Carronade Paixhans gun In 1712, Colonel Albert Borgard was appointed to the head...

Carronade Island Carronade Island lies off the northern (Kimberley) coast of Western Australia (13°56′42″S 126°36′09″E / 13.94500°S 126.60250°E / -13...

were ordered on 2 April 1943 - Battleaxe and Broadsword (from Yarrow); Carronade and Claymore (from Scotts); and Crossbow and Culverin (from Thornycroft)...

production of a new short-range and short-barrelled naval cannon, the carronade. The company was one of the largest iron works in Europe through the 19th...

32-pounder carronades on her quarterdeck, two 12-pounder guns and two 32-pounder carronades on her forecastle, and six 18-pounder carronades on her poop...

finally within carronade range at 12:45, her fire was not as effective as Perry hoped, her gunners apparently having overloaded the carronades with shot....

factory's products, the river's name passed to the naval cannon called the carronade. These big guns were used during the Napoleonic Wars in melees such as...

revolutionise the armament of smaller naval vessels, including the frigate. The carronade was a large calibre, short-barrelled naval cannon which was light, quick...

Model of a carronade with grapeshot ammunition...

to a distance of 26 mi (42 km).[citation needed] Smoothbore cannon and carronade bores are designated by the weight in imperial pounds of spherical solid...

brass field guns, an 8-inch brass howitzer, and three 24-pounder naval carronades mounted on field carriages, and a Congreve rocket detachment. The force...

Anti-tank gun Artillery Autocannon Basilisk Bombard Breech-loading swivel gun Carronade Coastal artillery Coilgun Culverin Demi-cannon Demi-culverin Double-barreled...

formed the artillery of the British Army. The Royal Navy developed the carronade in the 18th century, although they disappeared from use in the 1850s....

"Gasconade" or "Melvillade", but better known by its later name, the "Carronade". The carronade was designed as a short-range naval weapon with a low muzzle velocity...

ships in the Royal Navy, albeit within the short range of the carronade. The carronades also used much less manpower than the long guns normally used...

595 lb (0.270 kg) powder charge) to nearly 1,075 yards (983 m) (30 lb carronade, solid shot, 3.53 lb (1.60 kg) powder charge). Small arms are often sighted...

sailing ship which mounted a battery of up to 120 smoothbore guns and carronades, which came to prominence with the adoption of line of battle tactics...

positioned at the corners. Andries Pretorius had brought a 6-pound naval carronade with him from the Cape, mounted on a gun carriage improvised from a wagon...

Carronade near the Old City...

Lancaster gun, an early rifled cannon firing 68 lb shot 68-pounder carronade, a size of carronade carried by some British ships of the line This disambiguation...

Constitution had a shot furnace installed for hot shot to be fired from her carronades. The French Romaine-class frigates originally also featured the device...

used his own funds for replacements: the ship now had a "six-pound boat-carronade" on a turntable on the forecastle, two brass six-pound guns before the...

sanctioned for trade within the European Union. Smoothbore cannon and carronades are designated by the weight in imperial pounds of round solid iron shot...

given to Lieutenant Bowen, "unmounted". The 12-pounder carronade weighed 330 kg (728 lb). A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used...

to fire explosive shells at a low velocity, they were an answer to the carronade in the close combat and anti-personnel role. However, their intended ammunition...

itself. The carronade was much shorter, and weighed between a third to a quarter of the equivalent long gun; for example, a 32-pounder carronade weighed less...

Anti-tank gun Artillery Autocannon Basilisk Bombard Breech-loading swivel gun Carronade Coastal artillery Coilgun Culverin Demi-cannon Demi-culverin Double-barreled...

her guns loaded with double or treble shots each, and her 68-pounder carronades loaded with 500 musketballs, she unleashed a devastating treble-shotted...