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The impact of a 24-pounder in a wooden hull


RoyalJames

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Today a brand new 24-pound cannon is fired into a replica of ship Vasa (originally built 1628) in Stockholm.

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I hope they do a shot that hits on a rib also. That would be much more telling of potential damage. Mythbusters did a cannon test a while back, and for some reason fired between ribs, so it only punched a neat hole in the planking. They were intending to show wounding inflicted by splintering wood on pig carcasses, but I think they failed to prove anything conclusive because of not getting a hit on solid structure.

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