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Forum: Heritage and History 07-08-2012, 18:10
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

Thanks for pointing out that I don't know much about ship's or seige cannon Your welcome (actually I don't know anything at all about them) and that your knowledge of firearms and such can be...
Forum: Heritage and History 06-08-2012, 22:22
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

Comparing the eye on the front of the carriage with that on the rear of the cannon barrel and those (still present) on the sides of the carriage it appears to be much too small to serve the same...
Forum: Heritage and History 06-08-2012, 18:54
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

That structure must have had a purpose and I'm open to suggestions (other than being horse-drawn) as to what.[/quote]
From my last post. The structure had a purpose.
It is shown by the eye on the...
Forum: Heritage and History 05-08-2012, 22:10
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

Those cannons ex ship, ex garrison were never intended to be used other than from fixed positions, that is shown by the eye on the rear of the cannon & the eye at the front end of the carriage, they...
Forum: Heritage and History 20-07-2012, 22:58
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

I think wheels on the gun carriages could would be changed if transferred from ship to garrison use, rather than different carriages.
Gun decks on ships were kept swabbed with water to prevent spilt...
Forum: Heritage and History 04-07-2012, 21:56
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

Whilst searching for pictures of the floods at Rising Bridge, I came across this picture which I had forgotten about, it will give every one a better idea of what the cannons & the carriages looked...
Forum: Heritage and History 17-06-2012, 18:50
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

If you take another look at the picure of the cannon in Corporation Park, you will see a lkeness to your carriage bits on the Coppice.
The one advertised as a French cannon, has a different recoil...
Forum: Heritage and History 14-06-2012, 20:35
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

Probably released from storage and distributed round the country for displays, when they started producing breech loading cannons, those old cannons could be very dangerous, because of the metal they...
Forum: Heritage and History 14-06-2012, 20:03
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

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If you look at the size & width of the wheels & the carriages, they are ship or garrison cannons. The horse drawn cannons used in the Crimea had diferent carriages and limbers....
Forum: Heritage and History 13-06-2012, 22:33
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

By eck that a big un ell of a lot bigger than the ones on the Coppice.
Forum: Heritage and History 13-06-2012, 22:30
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

Found a postcard of the Cannons when they were in Oak Hill.
John Kelly would know about them when they were on the Coppice, and if there are any photos. John salvaged part of one of the carriages...
Forum: Heritage and History 13-06-2012, 22:07
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

There are old postcards of the said cannons when they were in Oak Hill Park. Can't recall any of them when they were on the Coppice, will have to check. From what I can remember, they were aprox 8 ft...
Forum: Heritage and History 13-06-2012, 19:42
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

If I'm not mistaken those 3 Cannon/Cannons were put on the Coppice from Oak Hill Park, when the War Memorial was built, I remember sitting on the barrel of one of them before the war, then when the...
Forum: Heritage and History 11-06-2012, 17:55
Replies: 52
Views: 3,751
Posted By Retlaw
Re: The Coppice 'Gun Carriage'

All this has been discussed before in Heritage & History.
It would be a waste of good timber making a replica trunion.
The cannons that used to rest on them, were melted down in WW2.
There were...
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