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68-pounder gun — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {68-pounder gun — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
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The 68-pounder cannon was an artillery piece designed and used by the British Armed Forces in the mid-19th century. The cannon was a smoothbore muzzle-loading gun manufactured in several weights firing projectiles of 68 lb (31 kg). Colonel William Dundas designed the 112 cwt version in 1841 which was cast the following year. The most common variant, weighing 95 long cwt (4,800 kg), dates from 1846. It entered service with the Royal Artillery and the Royal Navy and saw active service with both arms during the Crimean War. Over 2,000 were made and it gained a reputation as the finest smoothbore cannon ever made. The gun was produced at a time when new rifled and breech loading guns were beginning to make their mark on artillery. At first the 68-pounder's reliability and power meant that it was retained even on new warships such as HMS Warrior, but eventually new rifled muzzle loaders made all smoothbore muzzle-loading guns obsolete. However, the large surplus stocks of 68-pounders were given new life when converted to take rifled projectiles; the cannon remained in service and was not declared obsolete until 1921.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «68-pounder gun» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68-pounder_gun
Wikidata Q4642310: «1846 British naval gun/fortification gun» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4642310
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