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Thirty-two-pounder gun of 4,500 pounds and VIII-inch Dahlgren shell gun: 383 of the 32-pounders (Dahlgren 1872, p. App.A) [3] each weighing 4,500 lb (2,041 kg) and 355 of the 8 in (203 mm) Dahlgrens were cast by Alger Builders, Fort Pitt Foundry, and Seyfert, McManus & Co. between 1864 and 1867. The 32-pounder had a crew of 10 and a powder-boy ...
After his father's death, he would write and present many technical papers on military weaponry, including the Dahlgren gun. Ulric Dahlgren (1842–1864) was a soldier in the Union Army and was killed in an unsuccessful mission to liberate Federal prisoners in Libby Prison and Belle Isle.
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Its recorded first work, the firing of a 7-inch (178-millimetre)/45 caliber tractor-mounted gun, occurred on 16 October 1918, which is recognized as the official founding date. The proving ground was named Dahlgren in honor of Rear Admiral John Adolphus Dahlgren, a Civil War Navy commander, who is the acknowledged "father of modern naval ordnance."
The Dahlgren Heritage Museum is open to the public. It promotes the history, traditions, heritage, and culture of the U.S. Navy at Dahlgren, Virginia and the surrounding community. Its key holdings include a scale model of a Civil War-era Dahlgren gun, the propeller from the first radio-controlled, unmanned flight, and Norden bombsight. [7]
The 18"/48 caliber Mark 1 – United States Naval Gun was the initial name and design for a large caliber naval gun in the early 1920s. After the Washington Naval Treaty prohibited the development of guns larger than 16 in (406 mm), the gun was relined and finished as a high velocity 16"/56 Mark 4 gun.
A 24-pounder is a gun firing a shot of 24 pounds weight, a mass of 11 kg. Examples include: 24-pounder long gun, including various designs of artillery used during the Age of Sail; M1841 24-pounder howitzer, used by the United States Army from 1841 to 1865; A size of Dahlgren gun used during the American Civil War
Dahlgren gun, type of smooth bore cannon designed by the Admiral and used by the U.S. Navy; Dahlgren Affair, failed mission to assassinate leaders of the Confederacy; Dahlgren system and dahlgrenogram, created by Swedish-Danish botanist Rolf M. T. Dahlgren (1932–1987) USS Dahlgren (TB-9), Torpedo Boat No. 9/TB-9/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 4