Talk:Swivel gun

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Very nice indeed. Thatcher131 01:49, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Use on land
The article seems to mostly focus on Swivel guns as a naval weapon, though I am sure these were also employed as land weapons. This is probably an area the article could ideally look at in more detail. Inchiquin (talk) 08:54, 10 April 2010 (UTC) Nine swivel guns were used by George Washington during his failed defense of Fort Necessity n 1754. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.53.5.68 (talk) 14:44, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Size
Cannon are typically referred to by the weight, not the calibre, of round shot they fire, as "three-pounders", "28-pounders", etc. What is/was the usual, the maximum and the minimum size of such a gun? The article gives some dimensions, but we need more research here. 64.60.100.162 (talk) 07:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * If it helps a 35mm roundshot seems to be about 0.4lbs (assuming uniform, spherical cast iron rounds and a modern pound), but I would imagine that if these things usually fired multi-shot rounds there may have been few, if any, actual ball cast for them. 62.196.17.197 (talk) 13:02, 28 February 2014 (UTC)