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Francis Bannerman VI was born on March 24, 1851, in Scotland, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1854. His grandfather was from Dundee, Scotland where he worked as a "linenman".
In the 1870s, Francis Bannerman VI operated "Bannerman's surplus". [4] His surplus company was one of the largest ever to operate. He built Bannerman's Castle , a massive storage facility on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River , to store his goods.
These included Navy guns Marks 2 through 6, of 30, 40, 45, and 50 calibers length. All of the Bannerman guns were 30 calibers long; the number of guns of other lengths is unclear. Sources state that all Navy guns were cut down to 30 calibers barrel length in an attempt to standardize ballistics, as that was the length of the shortest Navy guns.
On it, lies Bannerman Castle, built by Francis Bannerman who built it in the early 1900s as a summer residence and storage space for his arms business, based in Brooklyn. It was an idyllic retreat ...
Spencer 1882 is a pump-action shotgun designed by Christopher Miner Spencer and Sylvester Howard Roper, which was produced by the former's Spencer Arms Company from 1882 to 1889 or 1892, and subsequently by Francis Bannerman & Sons from 1890 to 1907.
Bannerman Springfield: After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Scottish-born military surplus magnate Francis Bannerman VI assembled 1,000 M1903 rifles from surplus parts which were rebored to accept .303 British ammunition. He presented these to the British Army together with bayonets, pouches and webbing as a patriotic gesture.
Francis Bannerman VI (1851–1918), Irish-American Businessman, built Bannerman's Castle on Pollepel Island; Helen Bannerman (1862–1946), British writer, author of Little Black Sambo; Hugh Bannerman (1887–1917), New Zealand cricketer, journalist and soldier; Ian Bannerman, Australian actor who portrayed Deadly Earnest on TEN-10 from 1966 to ...
Edward VI (1547–1553) Lord St John, Keeper 1547 1547 Lord Rich [b] 1547 1551 Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely: 1552 1553 Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester: 1553 1555 Mary I (1553–1558) Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York 1555 1558 Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper 1558 1579 Elizabeth I (1558–1603) Thomas Bromley: 1579 1587 Christopher Hatton ...