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A 32-pounder 56 cwt was a heavy gun for ships of the line. It had a long range, a high chance to hit the target and had a high power of penetration. A 32-pounder 25 cwt fired the same shot, but with less gunpowder. It led to a lower muzzle velocity, lower range and less power of penetration.
The Ordnance QF 32 pounder or (32-pdr) was a British 94 mm gun, initially developed as a replacement for the Ordnance QF 17-pdr anti-tank gun. The only use of the 32-pounder was as the armament for the pilot vehicles of the Tortoise heavy assault tank .
A 32-pounder is a gun firing a shot of 32 pounds weight, a mass of 15 kg. Examples include: Naval artillery in the Age of Sail; 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
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 14-pounder (6.35 kg) (3.8 in (97 mm)) James rifle on the First Bull Run battlefield, the only weapon entirely designed by James adopted by the US Army. Two Model 1829 32-pounder (14.5 kg) seacoast guns, rifled by the James method (sometimes called 64-pdr (29 kg) James rifles). The one in the foreground is on a siege carriage.
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 M1844 32-pounder howitzer was a bronze smoothbore muzzle-loading artillery piece adopted by the United States Army in 1844 and employed during the American Civil War.It fired a 25.6 lb (11.6 kg) common shell to a distance of 1,504 yd (1,375.3 m) at 5° elevation.
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.