Wooden Canon

[fernando]

Your'e luckier than me, David .
If you noticed the small lettering in those leather cannon legends, the one below is in the Woolwich Artillery Museum. Don't forget to take a look at it, when you next flee from Kent and come to the city .
It also says in the legend that the center tube, equally made of leather, is circled with hemp cord, before being hemmed with leather.
This cord thing reminds me the cord wraped around the wooden canon in Malta ... meaning nothing but just that .
Fernando

[Rick]

I'd suspect the wood cannon was frapped with line to reinforce it against internal pressure; it would provide continuous lengthwise support while iron bands would only be effective where applied to the barrell .

[Rick]

Originally Posted by fernando

Your'e luckier than me, David .
If you noticed the small lettering in those leather cannon legends, the one below is in the Woolwich Artillery Museum. Don't forget to take a look at it, when you next flee from Kent and come to the city .
It also says in the legend that the center tube, equally made of leather, is circled with hemp cord, before being hemmed with leather.
This cord thing reminds me the cord wraped around the wooden canon in Malta ... meaning nothing but just that .
Fernando

These cannon must have gone through subtle changes in different types of weather; shrinking, expanding . What if that inner hemp wrapping was to give a bit of flexibility (play) during different weathers to accomodate the projectile better .

[Matchlock]

... in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg.

Michael