Engineering:List of muzzle-loading guns
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Muzzle-loading guns (as opposed to muzzle-loading mortars and howitzers) are an early type of artillery, (often field artillery, but naval artillery and siege artillery were other types of muzzleloading artillery), used before, and even for some time after, breech-loading cannon became common. Projectile (early on with shot and then later on with shells) and powder charge are loaded via the muzzle and rammed down the barrel, and then fired at the target. Muzzle-loading artillery came in smoothbore and rifled form, the rifled guns increasingly taking over from the smoothbores as time past and technology improved. Most were made of bronze because of a lack of metallurgic technology, but cast and wrought-iron guns were common as well, particularly later on. Muzzleloading artillery evolved across a wide range of styles, beginning with the bombard, and evolving into culverins, falconets, sakers, demi-cannon, rifled muzzle-loaders, Parrott rifles, and many other styles. Handcannons are excepted from this list because they are hand-held and typically of small caliber.
Smoothbore muzzle-loading cannon
Caliber (mm) | Weapon name | Country of origin | Design |
---|---|---|---|
40 | Hwangja-Chongtong | ![]() |
Early 15th century |
50 | Galloper gun | ![]() |
1740 |
61 | Hyunja-Chongtong | ![]() |
Early 15th century |
76 | Grasshopper cannon | ![]() |
18th century |
76 | Minion | ![]() |
18th century |
83 | Saker | ![]() |
18th century |
84 | Canon de 4 de Vallière | ![]() |
1732 |
84 | So-po | ![]() |
Late 19th century |
96 | Canon de 6 système An XI | ![]() |
1803 |
100 | Demi-culverin | ![]() |
18th century |
100 | Hongyi-po | ![]() |
Early 17th century |
105 | Jija-Chongtong | ![]() |
Early 15th century |
118 | Cheonja-Chongtong | ![]() |
Early 15th century |
120 | Jung-po | ![]() |
Late 19th century |
121 | Canon de 12 livres Le Solide | ![]() |
1688 |
121 | Canon de 12 de Vallière | ![]() |
1732 |
121 | Canon obusier de 12 | ![]() |
1853 |
130 | Culverin | ![]() |
18th century |
134 | Canon de 16 Le Combattant | ![]() |
1674 |
134 | Canon de 16 La Curiosité | ![]() |
1679 |
151 | Canon de 16 Le Protecteur | ![]() |
1683 |
151 | Obusier de 15 cm Valée | ![]() |
1828 |
154 | Demi-cannon | ![]() |
18th century |
155 | Canon de 24 de Vallière | ![]() |
1732 |
162 | Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval | ![]() |
1764 |
178 | Ornate Ottoman cannon | ![]() |
1581 |
204 | ML 8 inch shell gun | ![]() |
1820s |
206 | 68-pounder gun | ![]() |
1846 |
Rifled muzzle-loading cannon
Caliber (mm) | Weapon name | Country of origin | Design |
---|---|---|---|
64 | RML 2.5 inch Mountain Gun | ![]() |
1879 |
73 | 2.9 inch Parrott rifle | ![]() |
1860 |
76 | 3-inch ordnance rifle | ![]() |
1862 |
76 | RML 7 pounder Mountain Gun | ![]() |
1873 |
86 | Canon de campagne de 4 rayé | ![]() |
1858 |
96 | Wiard rifle | ![]() |
1861 |
121 | Canon de 12 La Hitte | ![]() |
1859 |
140 | 70-pounder Whitworth naval gun | ![]() |
1860s |
160 | RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun | ![]() |
1865 |
160 | RML 64 pounder 71 cwt gun | ![]() |
1870 |
160 | RML 6.3 inch Howitzer | ![]() |
1878 |
178 | RML 7 inch gun | ![]() |
1860s-1890s |
191 | Widow Blakely | ![]() |
1861 |
203 | RML 8 inch gun | ![]() |
1866 |
206 | 68-pounder Lancaster gun | ![]() |
1850s |
227 | RML 9 inch 12 ton gun | ![]() |
1865 |
233 | Somerset cannon | ![]() |
1863 |
254 | RML 10 inch 18 ton gun | ![]() |
1868 |
279 | RML 11 inch 25 ton gun | ![]() |
1867 |
305 | RML 12 inch 25 ton gun | ![]() |
1866 |
305 | RML 12 inch 35 ton gun | ![]() |
1873 |
318 | RML 12.5 inch 38 ton gun | ![]() |
1875 |
406 | RML 16 inch 80 ton gun | ![]() |
1880 |
450 | RML 17.72 inch gun | ![]() |
1877 |
See also
Notes and references
![]() | Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of muzzle-loading guns.
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