RoyalJames Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 (edited) Today a brand new 24-pound cannon is fired into a replica of ship Vasa (originally built 1628) in Stockholm. https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svt.se%2Fnyheter%2Fsverige%2Fi-dag-skjuts-regalskeppet-vasa-sonder&edit-text= Edited October 22, 2014 by RoyalJames
Coastie04 Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Nice! Where's the Youtube video? She was bigger and faster when under full sail With a gale on the beam and the seas o'er the rail
Coastie04 Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 http://www.thelocal.se/20141022/iconic-vasa-ship-fires-biggestFound it. And, a picture of the damage! I can't wait until they test other rounds. She was bigger and faster when under full sail With a gale on the beam and the seas o'er the rail
RoyalJames Posted October 23, 2014 Author Posted October 23, 2014 Thanks! The shooting hadn’t begun yet as I made the first post.
Cascabel Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 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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