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Re: Master & Commander
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2003 Dec 10, 08:40 +0000
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2003 Dec 10, 08:40 +0000
Kieran Kelly wrote:
> Also close observation would show that the guns on Aubrey's "Surprise" in
> the film were fired with flintlocks. I thought Napoleonic era cannon were
> fired with a slow-match applied directly to the touch hole. Can anyone help
> me here?
Flintlock firing mechanisms were tried in the 1750s and had become
fairly standard in the Royal Navy by about 1780.
Trevor Kenchington
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