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... 27 KB (3,636 words) - 20:13, 29 April 2024 |
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... 7 KB (592 words) - 04:51, 14 April 2023 |
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... 4 KB (481 words) - 10:55, 28 April 2022 |
Naval artillery in the Age of Sail (section Carronade) fashions changed. Some types include: Demi-cannon Culverin Demi-culverin Carronade Paixhans gun In 1712, Colonel Albert Borgard was appointed to the head... 15 KB (2,215 words) - 14:50, 9 September 2023 |
Weapon-class destroyer (redirect from HMS Carronade) were ordered on 2 April 1943 - Battleaxe and Broadsword (from Yarrow); Carronade and Claymore (from Scotts); and Crossbow and Culverin (from Thornycroft)... 14 KB (1,312 words) - 00:34, 5 October 2023 |
Carron Company (section Carronades) 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... 15 KB (1,564 words) - 15:31, 24 March 2024 |
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.... 42 KB (4,656 words) - 04:32, 23 April 2024 |
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... 27 KB (3,829 words) - 16:18, 25 March 2024 |
River Carron, Forth (section Carronade Island) 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... 12 KB (1,539 words) - 09:50, 1 April 2024 |
Model of a carronade with grapeshot ammunition... 4 KB (431 words) - 02:42, 2 March 2024 |
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... 28 KB (2,411 words) - 01:23, 14 March 2024 |
Charles Gascoigne (section Carronades) "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... 9 KB (1,041 words) - 10:01, 26 November 2023 |
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... 19 KB (2,630 words) - 06:09, 30 December 2023 |
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.... 17 KB (2,251 words) - 18:25, 13 June 2023 |
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... 91 KB (11,339 words) - 16:17, 23 April 2024 |
Carronade near the Old City... 85 KB (8,448 words) - 10:57, 29 April 2024 |
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... 889 bytes (103 words) - 04:49, 22 July 2019 |
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... 35 KB (3,815 words) - 10:00, 30 March 2024 |
sanctioned for trade within the European Union. Smoothbore cannon and carronades are designated by the weight in imperial pounds of round solid iron shot... 44 KB (5,034 words) - 17:13, 24 March 2024 |
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... 154 KB (17,795 words) - 23:37, 27 April 2024 |
her guns loaded with double or treble shots each, and her 68-pounder carronades loaded with 500 musketballs, she unleashed a devastating treble-shotted... 91 KB (11,035 words) - 23:43, 26 April 2024 |