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Fred wrote:

> I believe
> the Surprise, being an older ship, lacked flintlocks.


Getting rather too far from navigation:

The age of the ship and the age of her guns were not closely linked.
When a ship was paid off and placed in Ordinary (i.e. as a hulk held in
reserve), her guns would be sent ashore. When she fitted out again, the
Ordnance Board would supply the required number of guns of appropriate
sizes but only by chance would they be the same individual guns as those
previously removed.

Gun carriages were sometimes more specific to individual ships, in as
much as their height had to match the height of the sills of the
gunports, which were not as standard from ship to ship as they might
have been.


Trevor Kenchington


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