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A TREATISE ON NAVAL GUNNERY 1855

Written by Howard Douglas
Published by Conway Maritime Press in 1982
ISBN: 0851772757

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A TREATISE ON NAVAL GUNNERY 1855
Written by Howard Douglas.
Stock no. 1823561
1st thus. 1982. Hardback. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The only comprehensive English-language work on the armament of warships during the final period of the cast-iron smooth-bore gun - the main weapon of western fighting ships for nearly 450 years. First published in 1817 and expanded in the following decades. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0851772757. 1982 reprint of the fourth edition. Name & address in pencil to front endpaper. Text block slightly grubby. Red pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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Contents

  • Introduction to the First Edition
  • PART I
  • On the Organisation and Training of Naval Gunners
  • PART II
  • On the Theory and Practice of Gunnery, more particularly applied to the Service of Naval Ordance
  • The Theory of Projectiles in Vacuo
  • The Theory of Projectiles in Air
  • The Effect of Splinters
  • The Effects of Heavy and Compound Shot
  • Employment of Double and Triple Shot
  • The Effects of Windage
  • The Effects of Length of Gun
  • On Recoil and Preponderance
  • The Effects of Wads
  • Penetration of Shot
  • On Cylindro-conoidal and Excentric Spherical Projectiles
  • PART III
  • On Ordance re-bored and newly constructed for the British and Foreign Navies
  • 1. Bored up Guns
  • 2. Monster Guns
  • 3. New Guns for Solid shot
  • 4. New Guns for Shells and Hollow Shot
  • 5. Rifle-guns loaded at the Breech
  • 6. Relative Values of Solid and Hollow Shot
  • 7. Stowage of Shells, etc
  • 8. On Military Rockets
  • 9. On the Attack of Maritime Fortresses
  • PART IV
  • On the Service of Guns in Naval Actions
  • 1. On the Determination of Distances at Sea
  • 2. On Pointing Naval Ordnance
  • 3. Locks and Tubes for Naval Ordnance
  • 4. On the Practice of Firing at Sea
  • 5. On the Manual Exercise of Naval Artillery
  • 6. On Gunpowder and Gun Cotton
  • PART V
  • On the Tactics of Single Actions at Sea
  • APPENDICES
  • INDEX TO THE WORDS - ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED