Gun Weight of piece 12pdr 3015 lbs 12pdr 2930 lbs 8pdr 2320 lbs 8pdr 2210 lbs 6pdr 2560 lbs 6pdr 2400 lbs 5pdr 1420 lbs 5pdr 1410 lbs 5pdr 1395 lbs 5pdr 1365 lbs 3pdr 730 lbs 3pdr 720 lbs
This is an ongoing discussion about 17th Century naval wargaming (really, 1620-1720). Part of what is offered are scenarios for games: orders-of-battle, ship lists, battle descriptions, and scenarios for Age of Sail II-Privateers Bounty (a sailing warfare computer simulation/game), suitable scaled for that environment. Copyright (c) 2003-2004 James C. Bender
Friday, June 08, 2007
Some Dutch guns
I took some photographs of documents, when I visited the Nationaal Archief The Hague. One page has some gun weights and also numbers of shot on hand for a particular Dutch warship, the hired ship for the Admiralty of Amsterdam, the Jonas. These are some representative weights:
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