Muzzle-loading smoothbore and rifled guns of the age of sail and the American Civil War, mounted on warships and in coastal forts, including carronades, Dahlgren guns, Paixhans guns, Rodman guns and the long guns that armed ships of the line. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a naval or coastal gun. It excludes towed field guns, mortars and rocket artillery. These guns shaped naval and coastal warfare from the eighteenth century to the American Civil War, and the short carronade, the shell-firing Paixhans gun and the large smoothbore Rodman gun mark steps in that evolution.
All Muzzle-Loading Naval and Coastal Guns
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Wikipedia: Carronade
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A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron naval cannon.
Dahlgren gun, Wikipedia
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Dahlgren guns were muzzle-loading naval guns designed by United States Navy Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (November 13, 1809, July 12, 1870), mostly used in the American Civil War.
Wikipedia: Paixhans gun
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The Paixhans gun (French: Canon Paixhans, French pronunciation: [pɛksɑ̃]) was the first naval gun designed to fire explosive shells.
Wikipedia: Rodman gun
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The Rodman gun is any of a series of American Civil War-era columbiads designed by Union artillery officer Thomas Jackson Rodman (1815-1871).
Wikipedia: 18-pounder long gun
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The 18-pounder long gun was an intermediary calibre piece of naval artillery mounted on warships of the Age of Sail.
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