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As a 32-pounder it was shorter, lighter (17 cwt, 864 kg) and used less powder than a 32 pdr cannon. It compensated for this by having less windage (space between the barrel and the shot). By 1825 the 32-pounder carronade was the only carronade still in general use in the Royal Navy.
The 32-pounder 56 cwt cannon was an artillery piece designed and used by the British Armed Forces in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was by far the most common 32-pounder used by the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, with 1,961 guns being recorded as in use and 1,733 being in storage at the end of March 1857.
32-pounder gun - a smooth-bore muzzle-loading gun firing 32-pound shot, c. 1500 – c. 1880; 32-pounder 56 cwt - a large-caliber British naval gun of the 1790–1830 era; 32-pounder long gun (demi-cannon) - a large-caliber British naval gun of the 1700s; Dahlgren gun#Thirty-two-pounder - American naval guns of the mid-19th century; M1844 32 ...
The 32-pdr gun could have easily penetrated the front hull of the Tiger II (Konigstiger) and Jagdtiger; it would have been the only allied anti-tank gun that could do so in the Second World War. By comparison the M308 HVAP shell of the 90 mm M3 anti-tank gun on the US M36 Gun Motor Carriage could penetrate 114 mm (4.5 in) at 50° at 100 yd (91 m).
2 42-pounders rifled (84-pounder James rifles) 2 32-pounders rifled (64-pounder James rifles) 1,650 yd. Battery Sigel 5 4.2-inch (30-pounder) Parrott rifles. 1 24-pounder rifled (48-pounder James rifle) 1,670 yd. Battery Scott 3 10-inch and 1 8-inch columbiads: 1,740 yd. Battery Halleck 2 seacoast 13-inch mortars 2,400 yd Battery Sherman
A second cannon, but damaged. Last year, Seymour found a second cannon at the same site. This one lay in an area that appears to have been where most of the fighting took place, with abundant ...
A 32-pounder carronade, for example, weighed less than a ton, but a 32-pounder long gun weighed over 3 tons. Carronades were manufactured in the usual naval gun sizes: 6-, 12-, 18-, 24-, 32-, 42-, and 68-pounder versions are known. The smaller carronades served in three roles. First, they often constituted the entire armament of unrated vessels.
While earlier 32-pounders primarily fired solid shot, and these guns were called shot guns (Department of the Navy 1866, p. B/xvi) these newer guns could also fire shell. The 32-pounder gun of 27 cwt. had a crew of six and a powder-boy. Thirty-two-pounder gun of 4,500 pounds and VIII-inch Dahlgren shell gun: 383 of the 32-pounders (Dahlgren 1872, p