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	Carronade - LoveToKnow 1911
		He designed the piece in 1759, and called it the "smasher," but it was not adopted in the British navy till 1779, and was then known as the "carronade," from the Carron works on the Carron river in Stirlingshire, Scotland, where it was first cast by Mr Gascoigne.
		The carronade had a powder chamber like many of the earliest guns known, and was similar to a mortar.
		A 38-gun frigate carried ten carronades, and was therefore armed with 48 pieces of ordnance.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Carronade (200 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The carronade was designed as a short-range naval weapon with a low muzzle velocity, and is said to have been invented by Lieutenant General Robert Melville in 1759 and developed by Charles Gascoigne, manager of the Carron Company from 1769 to 1779.
		A carronade was much shorter and a third to a quarter of the weight of an equivalent long gun: for example, a 32 pounder carronade weighed less than a ton, but a 32 pounder long gun weighed over 3 tons.
		Carronades were manufactured in the usual naval gun calibres (12, 18, 24, 32 and 42 pounders, but 6 pdr and 68 pdr versions are known), but they were not counted in a ship of the line's rated number of guns.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=carronade (783 words)

	Ship Modeling FAQ, Research Note Carronade --- Revised: December 21, 2002
		At the apogee of the Carronade's influence-l805 to 1810--visionary captains were sharpening range-firing skills that made the Carronade obsolete by 1820.
		Carronades varied in length; a 12-pound Carronade was Less than half the length of a 68-pound Carronade.
		Carronades mounted near the shrouds frequently set rigging on fire-- the rigging of the ship on which it was mounted.
	home.att.net /~ShipmodelFAQ/ResearchNotes/smf-RN-Carronade.html (2196 words)

	Pirates of the Burning Sea Community Website - Encyclopedia
		The carronade was mounted on a sliding carriage with ropes to restrain the recoil.
		Carronades were introduced into the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary Wars, but were subsequently only fitted at the captain's discretion until the Napoleonic Wars, when many smaller single deck ships were entirely rearmed with carronades, with the exception of a pair of long guns for use as long range bow chasers.
		The Victory at Trafalgar had 2 large 68pdr carronades on her forecastle, one of which devastated a gundeck of the Bucentaure by firing a 68pdr roundshot with a keg of several hundred musket balls though her stern windows.
	www.burningseacommunity.com /modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=35 (1079 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The carronade was designed as a short-range naval weapon with a low muzzle velocity, and is said to have been invented by Lieutenant General Robert Melville in 1759 and developed by Charles Gascoigne, manager of the Carron Company from 1769 to 1779.
		A carronade was much shorter and a third to a quarter of the weight of an equivalent long gun: for example, a 32 pounder carronade weighed less than a ton, but a 32 pounder long gun weighed over 3 tons.
		Carronades were manufactured in the usual naval gun calibres (12, 18, 24, 32 and 42 pounders, but 6 pdr and 68 pdr versions are known), but they were not counted in a ship of the line's rated number of guns.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=carronade (775 words)

	Carronade - Definition, explanation
		The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, similar to a mortar, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
		Although the carronade, like other naval guns, was mounted with ropes to restrain the recoil, the details of the gun mounting were usually quite different.
		HMS Victory used the two 68 pdr carronades which she carried on her forecastle to great effect at the Battle of Trafalgar, clearing the gun deck of the Bucentaure by firing a round shot and a keg of 500 musket balls of through the Bucentaure's stern windows.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/ca/carronade.php (569 words)

	HMS VICTORY
		With low velocity the ball did not necessarily pass through the side of the enemy ship but the action of striking caused massive splinters to be dislodged from the inside walls which whirled around the decks causing death and horrific wounds to the guns' crews.
		The underside of the carronade was fitted with a lug instead of side trunnions and a pin passed through both the trunnion brackets and the lug.
		Where guns and carronades were combined in the ship's armament they became a potent force but on their own they were ineffective against cannon which could out range them.
	www.hms-victory.com /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=39 (1248 words)

	Carronade
		The carronade, named after its developer and manufacturers, the Carron Iron company of Falkirk, was invented in the 1770s.
		Carronades were introduced into the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary Wars, but were subsequently only fitted at the captain's discretion until the Napoleonic Wars, when many smaller single deck ships were entirely rearmed with carronades, with the exception of a pair of long guns for use as long range bow chasers.
		The Victory at Trafalgar had 2 large 68pdr carronades on her forecastle, one of which devastated a gundeck of the Bucentaure by firing a 68pdr roundshot with a keg of several hundred musket balls though her stern windows.
	www.hms.org.uk /nelsonsnavycarronade.htm (931 words)

	Scottish Picture Gallery carronade gun cannon photograph
		It is a carronade, similar in use to a cannon.
		The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, developed primarily for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK used from the 1770s to the 1860s.
		Due to its size and the small powder charge, the carronade was only able to project a heavy cannonball over a relatively limited distance so its use as an infantry field weapon was limited.
	www.scotlandforvisitors.com /nmspic3.php (114 words)

	CARRONADE - Online Information article about CARRONADE
		Carronades were added to the existing armaments of guns proper or See also:
		frigate carried ten carronades, and was therefore armed with 48 pieces of ordnance.
		American ships when the use of the carronade extended from the British to other navies.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAR_CAU/CARRONADE.html (318 words)

	Carronade (IFS-1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Carronade (IFS-1) was launched 26 May 1953 by Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., Seattle, Wash.; sponsored by Mrs.
		She arrived 24 July, and was inspected by Secretary of the Navy, C. Thomas on 26 July.
		Carronade resumed local operations, upkeep and overhaul in the San Diego area until a tour of Far Eastern duty (18 January-15 July 1958).
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/amphib/ifs1.htm (201 words)

	Carronade
		Charles Gascoigne [3], manager of the Company from 1769 to 1779, is said to have 'invented or rather improved' the carronade, and for a short time it was known as the 'gasconade'.
		Now the inventors of the carronade knew of these tactics; also they had observed that a heavy round shot striking a wooden ship at what passed for high velocity in those days (about 400 metres per second) punched a fairly clean hole with few splinters.
		Guns and carronades were classified according to the weight of the cast iron round shot they fired.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/car.htm (2385 words)

	Carronade cast at Cyfarthfa Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, 1802 :: Gathering the Jewels
		In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a number of Welsh iron works whose proprietors possessed the right connections with the army and the navy received contracts to cast cannons and cannon balls during the numerous European wars.
		One particular design of cannon was termed a carronade, after the Carron Iron Company of Scotland which had first developed it.
		A short, wide bored gun, it was mainly used in sea battles at close quarters, loaded with canisters of musket balls, as an anti-personnel weapon.
	www.gtj.org.uk /item.php?lang=en&id=28973&t=1 (251 words)

	Model van een carronade à 60 pnd op schuifslede. - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - National Museum for Art and History
		De 51 cm lange loop heeft een kaliber van 50 mm, een eenvoudig zundgat in de hoogste sierraadband, en een platte dichte druif, waaronder de eleveerschroef in de zoolplaat is gemonteerd.
		In 1810 diende de inspecteur der Artillerie voor de Marine bij de Minister een voorstel in voor een carronade van 60 pnd zonder tappen.
		Bij dit voorstel zond hij tevens een model in van dergelijke carronade, schaal 1/4, met zijn affuitslede voor een kustbatterij, op een verhoogd onderstel geplaatst.
	www.rijksmuseum.nl /collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=NG-MC-767&lang=en (225 words)

	Put-in-Bay (Putinbay) Chamber Archived News Stories
		Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial will begin their traditional "Carronade Weekends" on June 17 and 18 here at Put-in-Bay.
		Carronade firing demonstrations will be given at 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m.
		The Perry's Victory Visitor Center features a free movie about the War of 1812, interesting exhibits that include actual artifacts from the battle and a gift shop that offers books written about the battle.
	www.put-in-bay.com /newsarchive/newsarchive06/carronadeweekends06-06.html (393 words)

	German Carronades and Small Model Boats Kits from Across The Pond
		Carronade guns were short, large caliber weapons on light carriages.
		They were used to fire into the enemy's rigging at short ranges, or to sweep the decks before a boarding attempt.
		Two of these carronades were mounted on the forecastle of the Victory.
	www.acrossthepond.net /GermanMade.htm (135 words)

	The Carronades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Carronade was a very important addition to naval ordinance in the late 18th century.
		The carronade measured 4 ft. to 4 ft. 10 in.
		To load the carronade a loader would insert a powder cartridge into the muzzle and then push it to the other end using a rammer.
	www.ussconstitution.navy.mil /carronades.html (355 words)

	Notes on Naval History Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		THE CARRONADE was a short gun developed by the Carron Company, a Scottish ironworks, in 1778.
		The carronade was mounted on a sliding carriage with ropes to restrain the recoil.
		Ships were classified or rated according to the number of cannon they carried, carronades were never included in the number, although rated ships could carry up to twelve 24 or 32-pounders.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /gen1.htm (1142 words)

	History
		The shorter carronade could also be served by fewer men than the long gun and could be fired at a rate of less than 90 seconds between shots, a rate of fire only achieved by top crews on long guns.
		The carronades used in the defences of the Cape were placed during the days when the carronade was still in favour.
		Many of the smaller carronades were used on commercial shipping, some of which were used to cover the flanks of batteries ashore.
	www.museums.org.za /cannon/newpage1.htm (2315 words)

	Post Captain: The Cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Only the bow gun here is a carronade (note the different type of gun carriage, the large diameter, and and the elevation screw instead of a quoin).
		The Lively is offically listed as being armed with only a single nine pounder and a 32 pounder carronade on each side of the forecastle, but she did have three ports, so it is not unlikely that she might have carried an extra gun.
		The mast seen is the foremast, with both a forecourse having two rows of reef points, and a fore topsail shown, The yards are braced for the larboard tack, with the wind coming from the larboard side.
	www.hmssurprise.org /Resources/covers/PC.html (471 words)

	Carronade Gun Photograph picture - Old British Cannons photographs
		The carronade was named after its developer and manufacturers, the Carron Iron company of Falkirk and was invented in the 1770s.
		This photograph is from a collection which shows the variety of scottish castles and country houses or the national monuments and churches that help make the country of scotland.
		This picture of a carronade was taken at the national Museum of Scotland, based in Edinburgh.
	www.scotlandforvisitors.co.uk /carronade.php (261 words)

	Pacific Sailtraining Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The second purpose for this was it reduced the amount of gun powder burned, (It was noticed that long guns fired their shot at high velocity and punched a neat round hole.) So the principal concept behind the Carronade was that if the shot could be fired at lower velocity it would do more damage.
		It was known as the carronade, because the gun barrels were cast at the Carron iron works on the Carron river at Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland.
		The six pounder carronade was dropped from service by the Royal Navy.
	www.johnatkin.com /sailtraining/guns.htm (226 words)

	Welcome to USS Carronade - IFS 1
		Commissioned in May 1955, the Carronade arrived to late to assist with the Korean War, and was subsequently decommissioned and placed in reserve in May of 1960.
		In 1965 the Carronade was re-commissioned and redesignated LFR1 on 1 January 1969.
		During the Vietnam War, Carronade served as the Flagship of Inshore Fire Support Division 93 (IFSDIV93), working alongside the USS Clarion River (LFR-409), USS St. Francis River (LFR-525) and USS White River (LFR-536.) Decommissioned in 1969, the Carronade was stricken from the Naval Register in 1973.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageFullText/0,13476,200279,00.html (146 words)

	Broadside. Armament
		Mounted on a slide instead of a carriage the Carronade was a short barreled weapon of limited range, typically half to a third the range of a long gun.
		As with the Carronades the Long Guns took their description from the weight of round shot they fired, from 32 down to 6 pounders.
		The length of the barrel varied as well, the 24 pounder was manufactured in 6 different lengths, three of which were in common use.
	www.nelsonsnavy.co.uk /broadside6.html (705 words)

	Artillery: The Heyday of the Muzzel-Loader - Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society and Museum in Key West, Florida ...
		Carronade shot was also fired at a slower velocity than shot from larger guns, which strangely enough gave it a greater destructive effect, because it smashed through an enemy hull less cleanly than regular shot.
		While early carronades were mounted on regular truck-wheeled carriages, these proved unsuitable due to the carronade’s violent recoil.
		Although carronades fired a heavy destructive shot, its effectiveness was limited by its short range, which was up to 300 yards, well short of the effective range of most contemporary long guns.
	www.melfisher.org /cannonsurvey/muzzleloader.htm (1634 words)

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