52 relations: Aetna-class ironclad floating battery, Armstrong Gun, Bradford, Bradleys Head, Breech-loading weapon, Canister shot, Cast iron, Coastal artillery, Conqueror-class ship of the line, Crimean War, Edward Mounier Boxer, Flagstaff Hill Fort, Fort Albert, Fort Elson, Fort Gomer, Fort Nelson, Hampshire, Fort Victoria (Isle of Wight), Freshwater Redoubt, Fuse (explosives), Grapeshot, Gun deck, Heated shot, HMS Warrior (1860), Hundredweight, Low Moor Ironworks, Muzzleloader, Naval artillery, Naval artillery in the Age of Sail, Naval brigade, Non-commissioned officer, Palmerston Forts, RBL 40 pounder Armstrong gun, RBL 7 inch Armstrong gun, Rifled breech loader, Rifling, RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun, RML 7 inch gun, Round shot, Royal Armouries, Royal Artillery, Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, Royal Navy, Sabot, Shell (projectile), Ship of the line, Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), Smoothbore, Southsea Castle, The Needles, William Palliser, ..., Wrought iron, 68-Pounder Lancaster gun. Expand index (2 more) »
Aetna-class ironclad floating battery
The Aetna-class ironclad floating batteries were built during the Crimean War for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications.
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Armstrong Gun
An Armstrong Gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England beginning in 1855 by the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich.
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Bradford
Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield.
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Bradleys Head
Bradleys Head is a headland protruding from the north shore of Sydney Harbour, within the metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Breech-loading weapon
A breech-loading gun is a firearm in which the cartridge or shell is inserted or loaded into a chamber integral to the rear portion of a barrel.
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Canister shot
Canister shot is a kind of anti-personnel ammunition used in cannons.
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Cast iron
Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.
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Coastal artillery
Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications.
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Conqueror-class ship of the line
The Conqueror-class ships of the line were a class of two 101-gun first rate screw propelled ships designed by the Surveyor’s Department for the Royal Navy.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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Edward Mounier Boxer
Edward Mounier Boxer (1822-1898) was an English inventor.
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Flagstaff Hill Fort
Flagstaff Hill Fort is a former military fort at Flagstaff Point, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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Fort Albert
Fort Albert (map reference) is a tower fort nestling under the cliffs south-west of Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight, England.
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Fort Elson
Fort Elson was one of the early Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, the northernmost polygonal land fort in the defence line to the west of Gosport.
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Fort Gomer
Fort Gomer was one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, the southernmost and first-built polygonal land fort in the defence line to the west of Gosport.
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Fort Nelson, Hampshire
Fort Nelson, in the civil parish of Boarhunt in the English county of Hampshire, is one of five defensive forts built on the summit of Portsdown Hill in the 1860s, overlooking the important naval base of Portsmouth.
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Fort Victoria (Isle of Wight)
Fort Victoria is a former military fort on the Isle of Wight, England, built to guard the Solent.
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Freshwater Redoubt
Freshwater Redoubt, also known as Fort Redoubt (map reference) is an old Palmerston fort built in Freshwater Bay on the western end of the Isle of Wight.
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Fuse (explosives)
In an explosive, pyrotechnic device, or military munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function.
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Grapeshot
In artillery, grapeshot is a type of shot that is not one solid element, but a mass of small metal balls or slugs packed tightly into a canvas bag.
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Gun deck
The term gun deck used to refer to a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannon to be fired in broadsides.
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Heated shot
Heated shot or hot shot is round shot that is heated before firing from muzzle-loading cannons, for the purpose of setting fire to enemy warships, buildings, or equipment.
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HMS Warrior (1860)
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigateIronclad is the general term for armoured warships of this period.
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Hundredweight
The hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is an English, imperial, and US customary unit of weight or mass of various values.
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Low Moor Ironworks
The Low Moor Ironworks was a wrought iron foundry established in 1791 in the village of Low Moor about south of Bradford in Yorkshire, England.
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Muzzleloader
A muzzleloader is any firearm into which the projectile and usually the propellant charge is loaded from the muzzle of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel).
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Naval artillery
Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare, later also for naval gunfire support against targets on land, and for anti-aircraft use.
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Naval artillery in the Age of Sail
Naval artillery in the Age of Sail encompasses the period of roughly 1571–1862: when large, sail-powered wooden naval warships dominated the high seas, mounting a bewildering variety of different types and sizes of cannon as their main armament.
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Naval brigade
A naval brigade is a body of sailors serving in a ground combat role to augment land forces.
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Non-commissioned officer
A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who has not earned a commission.
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Palmerston Forts
The Palmerston Forts are a group of forts and associated structures, around the coast of Britain.
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RBL 40 pounder Armstrong gun
The Armstrong RBL 40 pounder gun was introduced into use in 1860 for service on both land and sea.
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RBL 7 inch Armstrong gun
The Armstrong RBL 7 inch gun, also known as the 110-pounder, was an early attempt to use William Armstrong's new and innovative rifled breechloading mechanism for heavy rifled guns.
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Rifled breech loader
A rifled breech loader (RBL) is an artillery piece which, unlike the smooth-bore cannon and rifled muzzle loader (RML) which preceded it, has rifling in the barrel and is loaded from the breech at the rear of the gun.
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Rifling
In firearms, rifling is the helical groove pattern that is machined into the internal (bore) surface of a gun's barrel, for the purpose of exerting torque and thus imparting a spin to a projectile around its longitudinal axis during shooting.
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RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun
The RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun was a Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) naval, field or fortification artillery gun manufactured in England in the 19th century, which fired a projectile weighing approximately.
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RML 7 inch gun
The RML 7 inch guns were various designs of medium-sized rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm small to medium-sized British warships in the late 19th century, and some were used ashore for coast defence.
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Round shot
A round shot (or solid shot, or a cannonball, or simply ball) is a solid projectile without explosive charge, fired from a cannon.
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Royal Armouries
The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom's National Museum of Arms and Armour.
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Royal Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is the artillery arm of the British Army.
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Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom
The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom was a committee formed in 1859 to enquire into the ability of the United Kingdom to defend itself against an attempted invasion by a foreign power, and to advise the British Government on the remedial action required.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Sabot
A sabot is a structural device used in firearm or cannon ammunition to keep a sub-caliber flight projectile, such as a relatively small bullet or arrow-type projectile, in the center of the barrel when fired, if the bullet has a significantly smaller diameter than the bore diameter of the weapon used.
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Shell (projectile)
A shell is a payload-carrying projectile that, as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage sometimes includes large solid projectiles properly termed shot.
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Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through to the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside firepower to bear.
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Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55)
The Siege of Sevastopol (at the time called in English the Siege of Sebastopol) lasted from September 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War.
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Smoothbore
A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling.
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Southsea Castle
Southsea Castle, historically also known as Chaderton Castle, South Castle and Portsea Castle, is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII on Portsea Island, Hampshire, in 1544.
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The Needles
The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise about 30m out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, close to Alum Bay, and part of Totland, the westernmost Civil Parish of the Isle of Wight.
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William Palliser
Major Sir William Palliser CB MP (18 June 1830 – 4 February 1882) was an Irish-born politician and inventor, Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1880 until his death.
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Wrought iron
puddled iron, a form of wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%).
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68-Pounder Lancaster gun
68-Pounder Lancaster guns were a British rifled muzzle-loading cannon of the 1850s that fired a 68-pound shell.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68-pounder_gun