Lancaster cannon

Lithograph “A Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery”: Portrait of a Lancaster cannon in use in the Crimean War in December 1854 .

The Lancaster cannon is a cannon named after its inventor , the barrel of which had an elliptical cross-section and was wound in a helical manner.

The appropriately shaped elongated projectiles in this cannon got a twist similar to that produced by drawn barrels . The Lancaster cannon was used by the English off Bomarsund in 1854 and in the Crimea in 1855 , but did not prove itself and was forgotten.

Web links

• Lancaster cannon . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 10 . Altenburg 1860, p. 74 ( zeno.org ).