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Large British East India Company copper water ladle for the crew of the naval gun - dated 1776
The Historic Maritime Society conducting a gun drill in period costume on board HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool for a documentary then being filmed.
A Leda-class frigate, Trincomalee is a sister ship of the famous HMS Shannon.
Gunners inside a Russian battleship, early 20th century.
USS Constitution quarter bill for gun Nr. 12, 1812 in : The Constitution Gun Deck, by Rear Admiral John C. Reilly, Jr. 1983
Constitution's quarter bill assigned a midshipman to command fourteen of her fifteen gun-deck 24-pounders with a typical gun crew of twelve men and a powder monkey.
The 1st Captain primed and aimed the gun while the 2nd Captain tended the firing lock and slowmatch and fired. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Spongers and Rammers relieved one another at those strenuous tasks to keep up the rate of fire. One man brought shot from the racks; another tended the train tackle to hold the gun in place while loading.
If needed, some men were designated to take stations as boarders (here they are William Wuden, James Black and Robert Hammon and they are marked with B, Br), to man the pumps, or to fight fire. Guns were normally manned on the engaged side only; if a ship engaged two opponents, gun crews had to be divided.
Scrimshaw sperm whale tusk with a gun crew dated 1815 and Napoleon on the other side. This tusk is a commissioned piece of art, but made by a Sailor during the 19th century
Gun crew inside of a 305mm gun turret belonging to battleship Patrie.
US Navy sailors.
“ Fire in the hole!”
Guns were once fired using an external touchhole containing primer. Once the command to fire was given, the gunner, by way of reply to the order and as a warning to the gun crew, cired “ fire in the hole!” while touching his slow match (a smoldering fuse or cord attached to a pole) to the hole.
Firing of a 18-pdr. gun, by Louis-Philippe Crépin (1772–1851) a French gun crew at work (x)