Dardanelles gun

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The separated Dardanelles gun

The Dardanelles Gun is an Ottoman giant gun from bronze from the mid-15th century. It is the largest and heaviest preserved gun from the 15th century and is on display at the Royal Armories in Hampshire, England .

description

The two-part tube has a weight of 16.8 t with a total length of 518 cm and a chamber length of 215 cm. It could shoot bullets 63 cm in diameter and 340 kg in weight. The barrel (core) and chamber can be separated by a screw connection for easier transport and loading . The cast screw connection was worked so precisely that it was gas-tight.

Technical specifications

  • Type of gun: main rifle
  • Gun class: giant guns (stone rifles)
  • Design: two-part cast bronze gun
  • Total length: 5,180 mm, 5,385 mm
  • Caliber: 635 mm
  • Soul length:
  • Chamber length: 2,150 mm with threaded piece
  • Outside diameter: 1,054 mm
  • Weight: 16,800 kg
  • Ammunition: stone or iron balls
  • Ball diameter: 630 mm
  • Ball mass: 340 kg, 304 kg

history

The Dardanelles gun was cast in 1464 by Munir Ali together with 16 other giant guns for Sultan Mehmed II , who besieged the Greek city of Rhodes in 1480. Similar giant guns were made by Urban on behalf of the sultan . The “Constantinople Gun” is particularly comparable. On the occasion of a state visit in 1866, Sultan Abdülaziz presented the Dardanelles gun to Queen Victoria of England .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Armories inventory number: R1998.068
  2. ↑ a b c d e Volker Schmidtchen: Bombards, fortifications, gunsmiths . Droste, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-0471-X , p. 40-42 .
  3. ↑ a b c data sheet at royalarmouries.org ( Memento from 4th July 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Royal Armories (English)
  4. ^ Peter H Kunz: Technical development of firearms 1200 to 1900 . Editions à la carte, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-905708-18-9 , pp. 105 ( Technical development of firearms 1200 to 1900 excerpt PDF ( Memento from November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )). Technical development of firearms from 1200 to 1900 ( Memento from November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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