68-pounder gun
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The 68-pounder cannon was an artillery piece designed and used by the British Armed Forces in the mid-19th century. The cannon was a smoothbore muzzle-loading gun manufactured in several weights firin
Replica 68-pounder aboard HMS Warrior.
A 68-pounder on a replica carriage
A typical land based traversing carriage. This is actually a 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading cannon, displayed at Fort Nelson.
RML 80-pounder 55 long tons (5.1 t; 5.6 short tons) at Smiths Hill Fort, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
HMS Warrior (1860)
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HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were th
68-pounder gun
…were beginning to make their mark on artillery. At first the 68-pounder's reliability and power meant that it was retained even on new warships such as HMS Warrior, but eventually new rifled muzzle loaders made all smoothbore muzzle-loading guns obsolete. However, the large surplus stocks of 68-pounders were given…
Warrior
One of the replica 110-pounder breech-loaders on the restored Warrior
Cross section of Warrior's bulkhead armour. Iron on the right backed by teak.
Warrior accompanied by Black Prince, by Charles Edward Dixon