- 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...
- 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 ****...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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....
- her
nominal armament also
carried six recently-introduced 18-pounder
carronades.[citation needed]
Through the haze she
sighted two vessels, a square-rigged...
- were
ordered on 2
April 1943 -
Battleaxe and
Broadsword (from Yarrow);
Carronade and
Claymore (from Scotts); and
Crossbow and
Culverin (from Thornycroft)...
-
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...
-
ships in the
Royal Navy,
albeit within the
short range of the
carronade. The
carronades also used much less
manpower than the long guns
normally used...
