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    Re: Secret testing of a new cannon —George Edward Godwin
   What a great gun! It needs a better mount though. :) It realy reminded me of the "Disappearing Guns" mounted at a place called (URL) Fort Rodd Hill> (near where I live)as coastal defence batteries during the Victorian era. I found a web page (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
   
        Re: Secret testing of a new cannon —Kurt Baty
   (...) Thanks! (...) Well! "Indeed, the 12-inch “Oregon” gun Ericsson had built in England, and which also constituted the U.S.S. Princeton’s armament (along with the infamous “Peacemaker’ of Captain Robert F. Stockton’s build) was worked by an (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
 

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