Cannon Id help

ChrisPer · 14th April 2016, 08:44 AM

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

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14th April 2016, 08:44 AM	#6
ChrisPer Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 35	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