- carronade. A ship
could carry more
carronades, or
carronades of a
larger caliber, than long guns, and
carronades could be
mounted on the
upper decks...
- USS
Carronade (IFS-1/LFR-1) was a ship of the
United States Navy
first commissioned in 1955. She was
named after the
carronade, a type of
short barreled...
-
swivel guns
found there in 1916,
mistakenly described at the time as
carronades. In July 1916, the
Royal Australian Navy
cruiser HMAS Encounter entered...
- 32-pounder
carronades on her quarterdeck, two 12-pounder guns and two 32-pounder
carronades on her forecastle, and six 18-pounder
carronades on her ****...
- 12-pounder
carronades (6 on the
quarterdeck and 2 on the forecastle). The 6-pounder guns were
eventually replaced by 24-pounder
carronades. Twenty-four...
-
smaller crew. On the
debit side,
carronades had a
short range. Some
warships -
mainly small ones - were
equipped with
carronades as
their main or only armament...
- 32-pounder
carronades. The
remaining two were
increased to 18-pounders,
along with the two 12-pounders on the forecastle, and the
carronades on the ****...
- br****
field guns, an 8-inch br**** howitzer, and
three 24-pounder
naval carronades mounted on
field carriages, and a
Congreve rocket detachment. The force...
-
frigate had a main
armament of 18-pounder long guns, plus 32-pounder
carronades mounted on its
upper decks. The
first 'super-heavy frigates',
armed with...
-
finally within carronade range at 12:45, her fire was not as
effective as
Perry hoped, her
gunners apparently having overloaded the
carronades with shot....
