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By John Osborne NCGM, FSG
From a Gunnery Notebook c1627
A Table of Proportion for the weight and shooting of great Ordnance
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| Names of the great Peeces | Height of the Peeces Inches | Weight of the Peeces Pound | Weight of the Shot Pound | Weight of the Powd. Pound | Breadth of the ladle Inches | Length of the ladle Inches | 2400li of powder makes of shot in a Peece | Shot point blank in Paces | Shot random in Paces | These Peeces be most | 1 | Canon Royall | 8 ½ | 8000 | 66 | 30 | 13 ¼ | 24 ½ | 80 | 16 | 1930 | serviceable for battery, | 2 | Canon | 8 | 6000 | 60 | 27 | 12 | 24 | 85 | 17 | 2000 | being within 80 paces | 3 | Canon Serpentine | 7 ½ | 5500 | 53 1/3 | 25 | 10 ½ | 23 ¾ | 96 | 20 | 2000 | to their mark, which | 4 | Baftard Canon | 7 | 4500 | 41 ¼ | 20 | 10 | 23 ¼ | 133 | 17 | 1700 | is the chief of their | 5 | Demy Canon | 6 ½ | 4000 | 30 ¼ | 18 | 9 1/3 | 23 ½ | 133 | 17 | 1700 | forces. | 6 | Canon Petro | 6 | 3000 | 24 ¼ | 14 | 9 | 23 | 171 | 16 | 1600 | These Peeces be good | 7 | Culvering | 5 ½ | 4500 | 17 1/3 | 12 | 8 ½ | 22 1/3 | 200 | 20 | 2500 | also serviceable to be | 8 | Bafilifco | 5 | 4000 | 15 ¼ | 10 | 7 ½ | 22 | 240 | 25 | 3000 | mixt with the above | 9 | Demy Culvering | 4 ½ | 3400 | 9 1/3 | 8 | 6 ½ | 21 | 300 | 20 | 2500 | Ordnance for battery to | 10 | Baftard Culvering | 4 | 3000 | 7 | 6 ¼ | 6 | 20 | 388 | 18 | 1800 | Peeces being crost with | 11 | Sacre | 3 ½ | 1400 | 5 1/3 | 5 1/3 | 5 ½ | 18 | 490 | 17 | 1700 | the rest, as also fit for | 12 | Minion | 3 ¼ | 1000 | 4 | 4 | 4 ½ | 17 | 600 | 16 | 1600 | Castles, Forts & walls to | 13 | Faulcon | 2 ½ | 660 | 2 ¼ | 2 ¼ | 4 ¼ | 15 | 1087 | 15 | 1500 | be planted, & for defence. | 14 | Faulcon | 2 ½ | 800 | 3 | 3 | 4 ¼ | 15 | 800 | 15 | 1500 | These Peeces are good and | 15 | Faulconet | 2 | 500 | 1 ¼ | 1 ¼ | 3 ¼ | 11 ¼ | 1950 | 4 | 1400 | Serviceable for the field, | 16 | Sarpentine | 1 ½ | 400 | ½ | 1/3 | 2 ½ | 10 | 7200 | 13 | 1300 | and most ready for defence | 17 | Rabonet | 1 | 300 | ½ | ½ | 1 ½ | 6 | 4800 | 12 | 1000 |
From a Gunnery Notebook c1692
The Seamans Grammar
A Table wherein is described the Names of all sorts of Ordance, from the Cannon to the Base;
Also the Lengths, Breadths, Weights, Diameters, & c. of Powder, Shot, Ladle, & c. belonging to each Peece. The Names of the several peeces of ordanance now in use. | Diameter at the bore | Weight | Long | The Load | Shots Diameter | Weight
of Shot | Length
of Ladle | Breadth
of Ladle |
| Incl 100 parts | Pound | Fe 100 parts | Pound 100 parts | Inch 100 parts | Pound 100 parts | Inch 100 parts | Inch 100 parts | Cannon | 8.00 | 8000 | 12.00 | 32.50 | 7.50 | 58.00 | 24.00 | 14.75 | Demi Canon, Extraord. | 6.75 | 6000 | 12.00 | 18.00 | 6.62 | 36.00 | 22.75 | 12.00 | Demi Cannon, Ordinary | 6.50 | 5600 | 10.00
11.00 | 17.50 | 6.16 | 32.00 | 22.00 | 12.00 | Culvering, Ordinary | 5.50 | 4800 | 10.00
12.00
13.00 | 12.50 | 5.25 | 20.00 | 16.00 | 10.00 | Culvering, Ordinary | 5.25 | 4500 | 12.00 | 11.37 | 5.00 | 17.31 | 15.00 | 9.50 | Culvering of the leaft size | 5.00 | 4000 | 12.00 | 10.00 | 4.75 | 14.90 | 14.25 | 9.00 | Demi Culvering, Extraord. | 4.75 | 3000 | 10.00
11.00
12.00 | 8.50 | 4.50 | 12.69 | 13.50 | 8.50 | Demi Culvering of the lesser size | 4.25 | 2000 | 9.00
10.00 | 6.25 | 4.00 | 9.00 | 12.00 | 8.00 | Saker, Extraord. | 4.00 | 1800 | 9.00
10.00 | 5.00 | 3.75 | 7.31 | 11.00 | 7.25 | Saker, Ordinary | 3.75 | 1500 | 9.00 | 4.00 | 3.50 | 6.00 | 10.50 | 6.75 | Saker of the Least size | 3.50 | 1400 | 8.00 | 2.27 | 3.25 | 4.75 | 9.75 | 6.50 | Minnion, Large | 3.25 | 1000 | 8.00 | 3.25 | 3.00 | 3.75 | 9.00 | 5.00 | Minnion, Ordinary | 3.00 | 750 | 7.00 | 2.50 | 2.92 | 3.25 | 8.50 | 5.00 | Faucon | 2.75 | 750 | 7.00 | 2.25 | 2.58 | 2.50 | 8.25 | 4.50 | Fauconet | 2.25 | 400 | 6.00 | 1.25 | 2.01 | 1.31 | 7.50 | 4.00 | Rabonet | 1.50 | 200 | 5.50 | 0.75 | 1.28 | 0.50 | 4.25 | 2.50 | Base | 1.25 | 200 | 4.50 | 0.50 | 1.12 | 0.50 | 4.00 | 2.00 |
Delination of guns c1750’s from a gunnery note book
Researched by John Osborne
Table of the British Establishment of the weights of Shot; and of the lengths of Cannon and their chief parts;
with their reduction to calibres of the Shot. Weight of the Shot, in pounds | Calibre of the Shot; in inches | Length of the Gun, in inches | Length of the Gun, in calibres | Length of the 1ft reinforce in calibres | Length of the 2d. reinforce in calibres | Length of the Chace in calibres | Length from the breech to the cent. Of Trun. | 4 lb | 3,0526 | 72 inch | 23,587 | 6,739 | 4,369 | 12,478 | 10,108 | 6 lb | 3,4944 | 84 inch | 24,039 | 6,868 | 4,434 | 12,736 | 10,302 | 9 lb | 4,0000 | 84 inch | 21,000 | 6,000 | 4,000 | 11,000 | 9,000 | 12 lb | 4,4026 | 108 inch | 24,531 | 7,009 | 4,504 | 13,018 | 10,513 | 18 lb | 5,0397 | 108 inch | 21,430 | 6,123 | 4,061 | 11,246 | 9,184 | 24 lb | 5,5469 | 108 inch | 19,470 | 5,563 | 3,781 | 10,126 | 8,343 | 32 lb | 6,1051 | 114 inch | 18,673 | 5,335 | 3,668 | 9,670 | 8,002 | 42 lb | 6,6844 | 120 inch | 17,953 | 5,129 | 3,565 | 9,259 | 7,693 |
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