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ten-pounder
ten-pounder (ˌtɛnˈpaʊndə(r)) [Parasynthetically f. ten pound(s + -er1.] 1. a. A thing (e.g. a ball, a fish) weighing ten pounds; spec. a fish, Elops saurus, about three feet long, inhabiting the warmer parts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; also called Big-eyed Herring. b. A cannon throwing a ten...
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HMS Forth (1833)
The Andromeda sub-class was armed with twenty-six 18-pounder cannon on her gundeck, ten 32-pounder carronades and a pair of 68-pounder guns on her quarterdeck and four more 32-pounder carronades in the forecastle.
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pounder
▪ I. † ˈpounder, n.1 Obs. Forms: 5 pounder, pondre, punder. [app. f. pound n.1; perh. in reference to the fact that the auncel had at its end a knob of a pound weight as a counterpoise (see quot. a 1640 in auncel). But it is also possible that the word in the form pondre was immediately from L. pond...
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Sábalo
"ladyfish" or "ten-pounder"
Megalops atlanticus (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela, United States, etc.), a.k.a.
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Dapper-class gunboat
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Ships of the class were armed with one 68-pounder smooth bore muzzle loading cannon (SBML), one 32-pounder SBML (originally two 68-pounder SBMLs were planned but the forward gun was substituted by a 32-pounder) and two 24-pounder howitzers.
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RML 40-pounder gun
The RML 40-pounder gun was a British rifled muzzle-loading siege and fortification gun designed in 1871. Ten 40-pounder RML guns were landed in Egypt in 1882 as part of a Royal Artillery Siege train formed for the Anglo-Egyptian War, however none of them were
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14-pounder James rifle
Ten 6-pounder James smoothbores are known to exist. These were the only ten James rifles employed by the Union Army of the Potomac at Antietam; it is not recorded if the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
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Ordnance QF 6-pounder
for the 6-pounder. In this role, the gun had a crew of ten; a squad leader, a gunner (for crew drill purposes, designated #1), four cannoneers (#2-5), three ammunition bearers
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24-pounder long gun
During the reign of Louis XIV, three-deckers were standardised on a 36-pounder main artillery and an 18-pounder secondary battery. Ten surviving guns which are likely examples of the 9-foot version weigh between 48 and 49 hundredweight.
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M1857 12-pounder Napoleon
The M1857 12-pounder Napoleon or Light 12-pounder gun or 12-pounder gun-howitzer was a bronze smoothbore muzzleloading artillery piece that was adopted The 1862 inventory by the Ohio Quartermaster General listed only ten 12-pounder Napoleons out of 162 available guns, compared to forty-four 3.8-inch James
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HMS Stag (1830)
The Andromeda sub-class was armed with twenty-six 18-pounder cannon on her gundeck, ten 32-pounder carronades and a pair of 68-pounder guns on her quarterdeck and four more 32-pounder carronades in the forecastle.
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Wreck of the Ten Sail
Wreck of the Ten Sail is a historic shipwreck event that occurred off the East End of Grand Cayman on 8 February 1794. History
Following the British Royal Navy's capture of the French 12-pounder frigate, l'Inconstante, off of St.
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10-pounder Parrott rifle
On 23 May 1861, the US government accepted the first ten 10-pounder Parrott rifles. The 10-pounder Parrott rifle was mounted on the standard gun carriage for the M1841 6-pounder field gun.
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20-pounder Parrott rifle
The U.S. government bought the first ten 10-pounder Parrott rifles on 23 May 1861. The U.S. For example the M1841 6-pounder field gun.
The 20-pounder Parrott rifle was mounted on the carriage for the M1841 12-pounder field gun.
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QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss
However, USS Texas, a second class battleship commissioned in 1895, carried a mixed 6-pounder complement of ten Driggs-Schroeders and two Hotchkiss guns However, 17 M1898 and all ten Mark II guns were transferred for use on Army troop transports in the Spanish–American War of 1898, leaving 70 weapons for
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