18pdr half-cartouwen bronze 3200 lbs 12pdr bronze 3300 lbs 5pdr bronze 1750 lbs 5pdr klokwijs bronze 1850 lbs 12pdr sakers iron 3200 lbs
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Dutch guns from 1653
The amazing thing is that I now have the gun inventories for many Zeeland ships from March 1653. Some guns of greatly varying shot sizes weighed the same. That explains, in part, why some ships might have what seems to be a very heavy armament: the guns carried turn out to be very light, usually chambered in the normal way, or with the bell-shaped chamber that the Dutch called "klokwijs". Some examples: