Cannon Id help
 

Hi , I would have more info Abaut This cannon ! It s iron 68 cm lenght with 45 kg weight ! Very heavy ! Any comment in origin and use ? Thanks

Hi,

i think, this is a Howitzer and of european origin. It is a weapon between a long canon and a mortar. It seems to be an early iron-Howitzer.


Roland

Hi Roland What period in your opinion ?

Looks like a line throwing cannon to me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=line...UIBigB#imgrc=_

Is the inside of the vent threaded? If so I would second the line throwing gun ID.

Also, the trunions appear to be set along the center line of the bore. Most modern cannon, from about c. Mid-18th C. used as weapons had them set lower, almost tangential to the bore.

The form of the reinforce around the trunnions precludes sighting. It is clearly an industrial age product, perhaps designed by patternmakers in a foundry but not by gunmakers, and the shapes suggest mid-later nineteenth century.

I feel that a line-throwing gun is a very good suggestion. There may be catalogue or other documentary evidence of its original purpose.

I too have an unresolved cannon ID of the period: Evans and Lowe Cannon, Dundee

Try posting it here. http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/blackpo...ast-artillery/

Most active cannon forum I have found.

Either a line-throwing or a signal (signal means for most fireworks) cannon, the trunnion arrangement is late, post-industrial revolution era, I guess late 19th century or early 20th.