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The hot shot lodging in a ship's dry timbers would set the ship afire. Because of the danger of fire aboard (and the difficulty of heating and transporting the red-hot shot aboard ship), heated shot was seldom used from ship-mounted cannon, as the danger to the vessel deploying it was almost as great as to the enemy; fire was the single ...
The Paixhans gun (French: Canon Paixhans) was the first naval gun using explosive shells. It was developed by French general Henri-Joseph Paixhans in 1822–1823 by combining the flat trajectory of a gun with an explosive shell that could rip apart and set on fire the bulkheads of enemy warships.
Cannon operation required specialised crew and gunners, who were first enlisted by the Spanish in the 14th century. [1] The nature of cannon operation often depended on the size of the cannon and whether they were breech-loading or muzzle-loading.
"Ship" and its derivatives in this context have since come to be in widespread usage. "Shipping" refers to the phenomenon; a "ship" is the concept of a fictional couple; to "ship" a couple means to have an affinity for it in one way or another; a "shipper" or a "fangirl/boy" is somebody significantly involved with such an affinity; and a "shipping war" is when two ships contradict each other ...
The word cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning "large tube", which came from the Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα (kanna), "reed", [16] and then generalised to mean any hollow tube-like object. [17] [18] [19] The word has been used to refer to a gun since 1326 in Italy and 1418 in England.
Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1919 France: World War II 130 mm (5.1 in) Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1924 France: World War II 130 mm (5.1 in) Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1932 and 1935 France: World War II 133 mm (5.2 in) QF 5.25 inch Mark I United Kingdom: World War II - Cold War 138 mm (5.4 in) Canon de 138 mm Modèle 1893 naval gun France: World War I
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In addition, the targeted ship would have fewer (if any) guns able to return fire. Historically, a stern rake tended to be more damaging than a bow rake because the shots were less likely to be deflected by the curved and strengthened bow, [ 1 ] and because disabling the exposed rudder at the stern would render the target unable to steer and ...