68-Pounder Lancaster gun

"A Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery", 15 December 1854, by William Simpson. Depicts naval guns deployed ashore in the Crimean War.

68-Pounder Lancaster guns were a British rifled muzzle-loading cannon of the 1850s that fired a 68 pound shell.^[1] They were fitted in pairs to the Arrow-class gunvessel.^[1] The cannon was designed with an oval bore and had a range of about 6500 yards.^[2] The gun had a tendency to burst.^[3]

References

1 2 Preston, Antony; Major, John (2007). Send a Gunboat The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854-1904. Conway Maritime. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-85177-923-2.
↑ Lambert, Andrew D. (1991). The Crimean War: British grand strategy, 1853-56. Manchester University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-7190-3564-7.
↑ Preston, Antony; Major, John (2007). Send a Gunboat The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854-1904. Conway Maritime. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-85177-923-2.

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British Empire naval weapons of the Victorian era

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Smoothbore muzzle-loading shell guns	8 inch 10-inch 86 cwt

Mortars	10-inch Blomefield 13-inch Blomefield

Howitzers	12-pounder Millar 24-pounder Millar

Rifled breechloaders (Armstrong)	RBL 9 pounder RBL 20 pounder RBL 40 pounder RBL 7 inch 110 pounder

Rifled muzzle-loaders (Lancaster)	68-Pounder Lancaster gun

Rifled muzzle-loaders (converted)	RML 64 pounder 71 cwt

Rifled muzzle-loaders (Woolwich)	RML 9 pounder 8 cwt RML 64 pounder 64 cwt RML 7 inch RML 8 inch RML 9 inch RML 10 inch RML 11 inch RML 12 inch 25 ton RML 12 inch 35 ton RML 12.5 inch RML 16 inch

Quick-firing guns	QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss QF 6 pounder Nordenfelt QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mk I QF 4 inch QF 4.7 inch QF 6 inch

Breech-loaders (new pattern)	BL 4 inch BL 5 inch BL 6 inch 80 pounder BL 6 inch Mk II – VI BL 8 inch BL 9.2 inch Mk I – VII BL 9.2 inch Mk VIII BL 10 inch BL 12 inch Mk I – VII BL 12 inch Mk VIII BL 13.5 inch BL 16.25 inch

Light weapons	Gatling gun Gardner gun Nordenfelt gun 1-inch Nordenfelt gun

Torpedoes	Whitehead torpedo

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